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Employees In Swedish Office Complex Volunteer For RFID Implants For Access
Lucas123 writes A Swedish office building is enabling corporate tenants to implant RFID chips into employee's hands in order to gain access through security doors and use services such as photocopiers. The employees working at Epicenter, a 15,000-square-foot building in Stockholm, can even pay for lunch with a swipe of their hand. Hannes Sjöblad, founder of Bionyfiken, a Swedish association of Biohackers, said Epicenter is not alone in a movement to experiment with uses for implanted chips that use RFID/NFC technology. There are also several other offices, companies, gyms and education institutions in Stockholm where people access the facilities with implanted chips. Bionyfiken just began a nationwide study using volunteers implanted with RFID/NFC. "It's a small, but indeed fast-growing, fraction which has chosen to try it out." The goal of the Bionyfiken project is to create a user community of at least 100 people with RFID implants who experiment with and help develop possible uses. But, not everyone is convinced it's a good idea.
John Kindervag, a principal security and privacy analyst at Forrester Research, said RFID/NFC chip implants are simply "scary" and pose a major threat to privacy and security. The fact that the NFC can't be shielded like a fob or chip in a credit card can with a sleeve means it can be activated without the user's knowledge, and information can be accessed. "I think it's pretty scary that people would want to do that [implant chips]," Kindervag said.
John Kindervag, a principal security and privacy analyst at Forrester Research, said RFID/NFC chip implants are simply "scary" and pose a major threat to privacy and security. The fact that the NFC can't be shielded like a fob or chip in a credit card can with a sleeve means it can be activated without the user's knowledge, and information can be accessed. "I think it's pretty scary that people would want to do that [implant chips]," Kindervag said.
...tattoo everybody with a bar-code...
Even when you can't just replay them you're often able to relay them.
Shake hands with a person in one place and in another your partner is able to authenticate as being them.
The NSA declined to comment although a muffled "W0000000t!!!!" could be heard in the background.
Requiem for the American Dream
Your objection has been noted, and will be ignored when the time comes. You're strongly advised to think your position over, to rationally analyze your fears and to understand that change is inevitable so you might as well embrace it. The consequences of some misgiven "rebellion" would be... Unpleasant to you and your family.
Yes, except⦠that they're easily removed and not visible. But besides that they're totally like tattoos.
Yep, like what the ranchers often do to their calf - branding
I mean, what's next?
Every new born has to be 'chipped', like kittens / puppies?
What NSA/GCHQ did was bad enough and this is much worse !
We might as well chuck that UN Charter of Human Rights out of the window, since human themselves are willing to be branded