Wisconsin Company Will Let Employees Use Microchip Implants To Buy Snacks, Open Doors (theverge.com)

A Wisconsin company called Three Square Market will soon offer employees implantable chips to open doors, buy snacks, log in to computers, and use office equipment like copy machines. The chips use near field communication (NFC) technology and will be implanted between the thumb and forefinger of participating employees. According to The Verge, around 50 people are supposedly getting the optional implants. From the report: NFC chips are already used in a couple of workplaces in Europe; The Los Angeles Times reported on startup workspace Epicenter's chip program earlier this year. In the US, installing them is also a form of simple biohacking. They're essentially an extension of the chips you'd find in contactless smart cards or microchipped pets: passive devices that store very small amounts of information. A Swedish rail company also lets people use implants as a substitute for fare cards. 32M CEO Todd Westby is clearly trying to head off misunderstandings and paranoia by saying that they contain "no GPS tracking at all" -- because again, it's comparable to an office keycard here.

Comments

Enough Already!

[nospam007]

This has been going on for roughly 5-10 years.
Each and every time a company, a club a resort ...implements this, some dodo who has never heard of this, posts this here as 'news'.
It's not.

Maybe not

[s.petry]

I think it's good to remind us of these Orwellian nightmare plots and schemes. IMHO this is an idiotic thing for anyone to do. Anytime it gets promoted people do, and should, push back.

Burke "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Sure, this company may not be evil. Who else can use these chips though? Are you sure they are all going to be altruistic?