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Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data

Posted by kdawson on from the what-has-identity-to-do-with-intent dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Oh the irony. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is this irony? How can you possibly go to China and not expect these sort of massive privacy/rights violations? Alanis Morissette has basically destroyed the meaning of that word.

    Canada sucks.
  2. Re:Well That's It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:China does not have to be nice. by Jurily · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, shit. You're already at +5 Insightful and that sentence is too long for a sig...

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