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Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies

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Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies

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Post by khedoros1 »

danellis wrote: post #13
cowboysauce wrote: post #10

>“On the other hand, I mean, people have been implanting things into their body, like pacemakers and stuff to control your heart,” he said. “That's a way, way more serious thing than having a small chip that can actually communicate with devices.” People don't get pacemakers for fun. They get pacemakers because they're medical devices that ensure their hearts beat properly.

Don't you think that's what he means by "way, way more serious"?

No, I think he means that putting something into the chest cavity is much more invasive than a rice-sized subdermal chip in your hand.

The point of that quote is to say that putting something unnecessary into your body is a big step, but that it's also a much smaller risk while still providing something interesting.

Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies

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Post by sanswork »

tomcooks wrote: post #27
sanswork wrote: post #21

I got one of these implanted in my wrist around ten years ago. AMA?

For what use? How does the implanting procedure work? What about maintenance and replacement

My friend owned a piercing shop and put one in himself which he used with his front door lock (plus a pass code).I was interested in RFID so I asked him to give me one.

No maintenance. I don't even use it anymore so not sure it still works tbh. Another friend of mine had hers removed it wasn't a big deal her GP did it.

Implant procedure at the time was a large needle through a pinched flap of skin then another tool which held the chip (it looks like a grain of rice) is pushed into the hole. The person then pushed it around through the skin to position it and you get a bandaid.

Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies

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Post by gozur88 »

forthwoart wrote: post #2

Because it's too inconvenient to carry a badge? Or make the badge smaller/nfc-tag-like?

I doubt the companies care that much about convenience. What they're probably thinking is "oh, it's like a badge nobody can steal!" Which is wrong. The stealing is just a lot more painful.

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Post by krapp »

diyseguy wrote: post #26
krapp wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I am not religious, but (bullshit nonsense from Revelations about the Mark of the Beast) You appear not to understand how "not being religious" works.

When they get you in at an early age, the fear and paranoia they teach you can make deeper roots into the psyche. I don't claim it's a rational fear. I don't claim to be 100% rational either.

I grew up in a small Texas town with Southern Baptists to the left, Pentecostals to the right and John Hagee on the tv, so I know how it can be.

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Post by lollerbot817 »

tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote: post #14
diyseguy wrote: post #3

I am not religious, but I got enough religious programming in Sunday school that this scares the shiznitz out of me. When this embedded human chip becomes a requirement, I'm moving to an underground bunker Revelations 13:16: And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17: so that no one could buy or sell unless he…

There is a conspiracy theory that barcodes on products are marks of the beast because every single barcode allegedly contains the number 666. This claim is based on the barcodes’ guard bars and how to interpret their meaning. See http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html for an explanation.

this is also unbelievably retarded.

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Post by prebrov »

krapp wrote: post #29
jonahrd wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having read the Bible doesn't mean you must be religious

Believing that the Book of Revelations has some sort of prophetic insight and that warnings about the Mark of the Beast or the Antichrist have any relevance at all does mean you must be religious.

Finding relevance to the modern events in ancient books doesn't imply religious belief.

Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies

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Post by lollerbot817 »

twinkletwinkle wrote: post #20

>And for me it's just a matter of I like to try new things and just see it as more of an enabler and what that would bring into the future Please do not normalize this shit and drag the rest of us down into your dystopian horror film with you.

calling it "shit" that needs to be "normalized" without any basis for this claim whatsoever sorta makes it seem like the dystopianism is within you, and not in the thing itself, huh?

Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies

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Post by daveguy »

I don't think this should be made illegal. If you can get an implant to make your job easier -- hmmm, maybe? However, making this a condition of employment should definitely be illegal. This crosses a significant line from non-invasive drug testing to invasive surgery.

But then... What happens when performance is used to determine hiring and firing and you can't perform as well without an implant.

I understand these are currently just for ID purposes (easy password). But these NFC chips already have a certain amount of storage. What happens when that storage is used to store context information that improves 3-5 operations rather than just login?

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