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One Quarter of Germans Happy To Have Chip Implants

Posted by samzenpus on from the identified-coward dept.

justice4all writes "If it means shorter lines at the supermarket, a quarter of Germans would be happy to have a chip implanted under their skin. The head of Germany's main IT trade body told the audience at the opening ceremony of the CeBIT technology exhibition that one in four of his countrymen are happy to have a microchip inserted for ID purposes."

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  1. Gestapo sagt: by cosm · · Score: -1, Troll

    Halt! Ihre Mikrochip bitte!

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  2. Could be worse by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 0, Troll

    At least the Germans weren't stating an opinion on whether they should forcibly implant microchips into people of OTHER nationalities.

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  3. Just to note... by eepok · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Germans and their willingness to fall in step with just about anything should not be assumed to be a universal characterization of Western civilization.

  4. Re:He looks like Gargamel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Basically the nazi philosophy doesn't include privacy, but it does include quick check-in to death camps, just what this would be perfect for.