Implanting Chips in Yourself
from the coming-sooner-than-you-think dept
Salon takes an in depth look at tracking chips that will soon be implantable in human beings. They definitely have some potential good applications, but the potential for privacy invasion is really big. I don't really have any sort of problem with someone who decides to implant one of these into themselves, but implanting it in others, or even giving them gifts that surreptitiously have tracking chips is a huge privacy problem. Soon everyone is going to need to have "anti-tracking device" devices as well. Maybe that's a business idea...
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