Friday, October 15, 2004
Feds approve human RFID implants | The Register
Good article questioning the use, point and implications of allowing a company to inject an RFID tag into people so that you can access their medical records regardless of whether they want to or are able to co-operate. Big business winning out over societal need for sure, and probably winning over ethics and common sense.
As Thomas Greene puts it so eloquently in the final paragraph:
Unique RF identity chips and concealed RF readers everywhere: madmen have been complaining about this since the earliest days of radio. That's how we knew they were madmen. Only an IT industry divorced from any sense of good taste and human dignity, in which technology becomes an end in itself, could strive to make the nightmares of the insane a common reality. And yet, here we are.
Good article questioning the use, point and implications of allowing a company to inject an RFID tag into people so that you can access their medical records regardless of whether they want to or are able to co-operate. Big business winning out over societal need for sure, and probably winning over ethics and common sense.
As Thomas Greene puts it so eloquently in the final paragraph:
Unique RF identity chips and concealed RF readers everywhere: madmen have been complaining about this since the earliest days of radio. That's how we knew they were madmen. Only an IT industry divorced from any sense of good taste and human dignity, in which technology becomes an end in itself, could strive to make the nightmares of the insane a common reality. And yet, here we are.
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