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VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID
cnet-declan writes "Anyone remember VeriChip, a company that came up with the idea of implanting chips in humans for tracking them? They've been behind ideas like RFID tagging immigrant and guest workers at the border, and they've persuaded a former Bush Health Secretary to get himself chipped. In this CNET News.com article, we offer an update on how successful the idea has been. It turns out that, according to IPO documents, 222 people have been implanted, with sales revenue of $100,000."
Can we stop with the medical scenarios? If you're violently allergic to eggs or randomly shit your pants and forget who you are then you are special and have special needs. You need to carry your bracelet or medical ID card around with you in case something goes wrong. We shouldn't have to install expensive readers in hospitals all over the country just in the off chance you might forget to take along with you the necessary indications of you special condition. I'm sorry but nature clearly does not want you here in the first place and if you cannot use your big brain in spite of that fact then you don't deserve to survive. Take some responsibility for yourself. This is a bullshit excuse to increase the ubiquity of a dangerous technology and desensitize the rest of us to its presence. Don't make it any easier to fully implement a technology where the main purpose is obviously to track citizens everywhere they go. And if you really can't be bothered to carry a wallet around, you're fucking lazy and probably dangerously obese as well.