Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data

OMNIpotusCOM writes "Tickets to the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies will contain a microchip with information about the ticket holder, including a photograph, passport details, addresses, e-mail, and telephone numbers. The stated intent is to keep troublemakers out of the 91,000-seat National Stadium so that they cannot cause disruptions while China is on world-wide television, but it brings up serious concerns for privacy and identity theft."

Comments

Inevitable

[jasonmanley]

Look guys, certain things are inevitable. They will eventually clone a human - somewhere in the world - regardless of laws. We will eventually have computer chips embedded under our skin - it will start with a way to track children, then a way to expedite purchases, then a way to hold critical medical info and so on. And so on and so on ... All we can do is educate ourselves, stay informed and be alert.

Big Whoopdy-doo!

[BigAssRat]

OMG, you mean that during your VOLUNTARY attendance of a HUGE international event they have some way of tracking you?? God forbid! This is NOT such a big freakin' deal that all of you paranoid folk on Slashdot like to make it out to be. If you are so worried about being tracked then don't buy a ticket and don't attend.

Re:Well That's It

[Agent__Smith]

Hey man, this is CHINA we are taliking about... They would NEVER EVER EVER do anything untoward or untrustworthy with that information... They CARE about people as individuals and are bulwarks of integrity when it comes to things like this...

What could you POSSIBLY be concerned about?!?
(cough)Tienamen Square(cough)