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by sabrodiesel2000

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The microchip, the size of a grain of rice, is implanted in the arm or hip. Hospital officials and security guards use a scanning device to download a serial number, which they then use to access blood type, name and other information on a computer.

Implanted into the arm
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In a two-hour presentation, Palm Beach, Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions introduced reporters to the VeriChip and used a syringe-like device and local anesthetic to implant a sample in the arm of employee Carlos Altamirano.

"It doesn't hurt at all," he said. "The whole process is just painless."

Another chip user, Luis Valdez, who is diabetic, said the chip is "as innovative to me as the cell phone."

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has said it would not regulate the implant as long as it contains no medical data. Thus, the information is stored in a separate database and not on the chip itself. Although regulations are different in Mexico, the Mexican version of the chip will still use the database framework.

Hospitals to get scanners
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Antonio Aceves, the director of the Mexican company in charge of distributing the chip here, said that in the first year of sales, the company hoped to implant chips in 10,000 people and ensure that at least 70 percent of all hospitals had the technology to read the devices.

Similar technology has been used on dogs and cats as a way to identify the pets if they are lost or stolen.

Company officials said they are working on developing similar technology that would use satellites to help find people who may have been kidnapped.

While the idea of using the chip to track people has raised privacy concerns in the United States, the idea has been popular with Mexicans.

For now, VeriChip can help confirm a kidnap victim's identity only after a body is found.

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by generalist

While privacy issues are something that need to be addressed with this technology, it can be very useful in some situations.

For example, locally there have been several cases of people with age related mental diseases dying due to exposure because they ended up lost in the countryside. Satellite based tracking devices might have saved their families a lot of grief.

The same devices could also be used to track escaped criminals and parolees that are at high risk of repeating their crimes. There will be a very interesting civil liberties battle should the satellite based tracking chips go into use for this.

For that matter, once such chips come into play, there will be a market for spoofing devices and chip removal services.

by djent

Who said Goerge Orwell was a crackpot, visionary would be more accurate. As for security issues, the government can't keep stained carpets secret. This idea should give John Ashcroft a woody.

by oldefar

See http://tinyurl.com/hwug

Never underestimate the ability of people to turn fiction into reality.

I remember the Dick Tracy wrist phones, video phones as I recall. Pure fantasy. Once.

I remember the first luggable computers. Only a fraction of the capability in today's PDA.

ON*STAR was combining cell phones with GPS back in the early 1990's. A trunk unit, but functional.

The power of the first computers I supported is now exceeded by chip, as are the first radios I supported.
Implants with a transmit capability? I would not be surprized at research in this area. After all, micro robotics are a serious area of research in medicine.

by generalist

Variations of the chips have been around for a few years as a way of being able to identify pets in the event that they lose their collars. I suspect that you would be able to find ads for the chips in the typical veternary clinic.

For that matter, in some of the popular tech magazines, there have been articles about people having implants that allow them to interface with their homes.

by jkaras

First off Olefar that's funny as hell, good one. Whether this is fiction or not our technology and imagination has no bounds that have contributed to allow us to fly, breath under water, tv dinners, computers, and on the moon. No matter what man candream up we can make it happen. As for this idea of implants only boobs should have them. The implications of miss use permeate this idea. If it is possible to have this that could update medical records, locate missing children, and track down crimminals are all worthy endeavors but who will be intrusted with this control? Power corrupts and all leaders abuse it constantly whether purposely or by accident, it's just human nature. I'm not exactly a conspiracy theorist but merely a pessamist andvalue the need for good old fashioned freedom and paper currency no NWO. Last time I checked the Jewish prisoners under Nazi control didnt like being tagged like cattle because a government thought it was a good idea. Until we get a medical system that treats all people with the proper care and availability to all treatments, I would rather invest in a better system and not a handy info device that will still have me dying in the emergency room awaiting the cheapest form of medical attention that my insurance can buy me.

by admin

instead. One would be the bar code for bananas, the other a bar code for a single soft drink.

They would be tattooed on my wrists and everytime I went to the store I would buy all bananas and soft drinks. :)

by oz_media

Cool, now they can find my ex wife and make her help pay for our child that I support.
This can be a great tool for medical reasons of identification. It would sure make forensic identification easier and perhapse murderers would be caught before repeating their actions.

I say AYE ! I got nuthin' to hide.

by don_c

If they can control themselves with the technology. It might not be too bad. But you all know as well as I do they can?t. They will find more ways to screw honest people. The government will use the technology the way they see fit and I just don?t think that they should have that much power over the people its supposed to work the other way. And just think about those little no life people that like to screw around with other people?s lives like those hackers that make up all those virus when you go in the hospital and you get the wrong medicine and you get an allergic reaction this might not happen but you may never know. And just think about identity theft we have enough problems with that situation. Don?t get me wrong I have nothing to hide but I don?t want to show something that is not true

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