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Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm

Posted by timothy on from the but-anything's-removable dept.

novakreo writes "Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mexico's Attorney-General, now has a non-removable microchip in his arm, to track his movements and to give him access to a new crime database, according to Bloomberg. The article says that eventually around 160 Mexican officials will have a chip implanted." (Wired and CNN are both running the very similar Reuters report, too.)

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  1. Not necessarily by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The technology exists such that they could in theory make this thing only operate when pysically attached to the body ( say, powered off of blood or bloodflow ), and only operate when in contact with his specific blood type.

    So to use it, a perpetraitor would have to a) Kidnap him, b ) cut off his arm, c) surgically graft the thing into someone else with the same blood type.

    Hopefully by that point they'd have de-activated his chip.

    I imagine in a few years we'd even be able to make these things DNA specific.