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British parents want microchip to track their kids
Wed Sep 4 02:13:28 2002
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British parents want microchip to track their kids
LONDON -- A British scientist said on Monday he had been inundated with
requests by panicked parents to implant a tracking microchip into their
children after the recent murders of two 10-year-olds in a quiet English
town.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0902microchip.story

British parents want microchip to track their kids

By Jason Hopps
Reuters
Posted September 2 2002, 1:16 PM EDT

LONDON -- A British scientist said on Monday he had been inundated with
requests by panicked parents to implant a tracking microchip into their
children after the recent murders of two 10-year-olds in a quiet English
town.

Cybernetics expert Kevin Warwick from Reading University near London
believes he can allay parents fears with a tiny microchip that may prevent
an abduction from becoming a murder.


The controversial robotics scientist gained fame in Britain after he wired
his own nervous system to a computer in an experiment he hopes will
eventually give paralysed people more control over their own bodies.

``A number of families have contacted me after the murders of Holly Wells
and Jessica Chapman with the possibility of using an implant for their own
daughter,'' Warwick told Reuters in a telephone interview.

The bodies of the two friends were found in remote woodland two weeks after
they went missing from their home town of Soham in eastern England on August
4.

``There are several options, including the possibility of using a mobile
phone network to transmitting a signal and linking it to a Global
Positioning System,'' he said.

One family, the Duvals, has offered up their 11-year-old daughter Danielle
as the first guinea pig to test the electronic tag, which Warwick said he
hopes to perfect sometime before Christmas.

The operation would involve implanting a small transmitter about one inch
long -- the size of a lozenge, Warwick says -- either into the child's arm
or stomach.

``A potential abductor wouldn't know the child had the device and it could
be switched off to sleep mode when it wasn't needed and to conserve its
battery,'' Warwick said.

Watches that perform a similar function are already commercially available
in the United States, but they could be too easily removed and discarded,
Warwick said.

Danielle's mother Wendy told the Daily Mirror newspaper on Monday:

``After the news of Holly and Jessica we sat down as a family and discussed
what we could do...I know nothing is ever foolproof but we believe the
microchip will go a long way to protecting her.''

A spate of recent abductions in the United States have put parents there on
edge as they worry about their children, but Warwick believes it is for
society to decide if a microchip implant is the ethical way to combat such
fears.

``There are of course many more questions to be asked and I suspect there
will be objections to an implant, but if the general trend in Britain is in
favour of such an operation it will be ready to go by Christmas,'' he said.