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The title is, of course, misleading. They are offering employees a microchip implant. It's not required. Still crazy that anyone would opt-in to do this, but a misleading headline all the same.
If there's no law that disallows employers to ask for this, it will be mandatory in a matter of years.
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I don't know about you, but my body's sense of proprioception[1] doesn't extend to lanyards or other things attached to my clothing. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
Yeah, but getting your arm ripped off by some machinery is also rarely deliberate.
Can someone explain why people prefer implants over rings? Functionality wise it's same: read on RFID tag, maybe with some light computation. People wear rings all the time, application is painless, easy to change once compromised or if there is a new model, and provides same features. Chips would have advantage if they would provide better IO, but currently they don't.
I guess if you want 100% 'coverage' an implant wins. A ring could still be forgotten. But I agree the disadvantages of the implant make the ring sound better.
Thankfully I have 2 NFC implants so it has been no big.
Meh. I got an rfid implant in 2010 ish, but took it out after a few years because there were so few benefits. If there was a universal standard maybe, or if the range was > 10 cm, or if it had more than a few bytes of memory. I think most people who got a chip implant over the last 10 years came to the same conclusion. The only applications that show up in the press every now and then are like this - for payments. Bu…
Also 1024 bytes is plenty to store pretty useful things like encrypted deterministic seeds for private keys for things like cryptocurrency, ssh, etc.
Would do it again, and have more implants planned.