LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Employees get microchip implants
Company requires controversial device for certain workers

Posted: February 10, 2006

1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c) 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A Cincinnati company is requiring any employee who works in its
secure data center to be implanted with a microchip.

The video surveillance company CityWatcher.com injected two of its
employees in the triceps area of the arm with the VeriChip, a glass- encapsulated RFID, or radio-frequency identification, tag, according
to Liz McIntyre, co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and
Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID."

CityWatcher.com's Network Administrator Khary Williams spoke with
McIntyre by phone Wednesday after the company announced it had
integrated the VeriChip VeriGuard product into its access control
system.

The tag can be read through clothing from a few inches away.

The highly controversial device is being marketed as a way to access
secure areas, link to medical records and make purchases like a credit
card.

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CityWatcher's Williams said a local doctor already has implanted two
of the company's employees with the VeriChip devices.

"I will eventually" receive an implant, too, he added.

Meanwhile, Williams accesses the data center with a VeriChip implant
housed in a heart-shaped plastic casing that hangs from his key chain.

He told McIntyre he had no reservations about having the procedure and
would do it as soon as time permits.

But McIntyre says she's worried that CityWatchers u a government
contractor specializing in surveillance projects u would be the first
publicly to incorporate the technology in the workplace.

CityWatcher provides video surveillance, monitoring and video storage
for government and businesses, with cameras set up on public streets
throughout Cincinnati.

The company hopes the VeriChip will bolster its proximity or "prox"
card security system that controls access to the room where the video
footage is stored, said Gary Retherford of Six Sigma Security, Inc.,
the company that provided the VeriChip technology.

"The prox card is a system that can be compromised," said Retherford,
referring to the card's well-known vulnerability to hackers.

He explained that chipping employees "was a move to increase the layer
of security."

[...]

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Cheers, Steve..

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Re: Employees Get Chip Implants
By: Steve Asher to All on Fri Feb 10 2006 10:49 pm

Derp! This citywatcher guy will joyfully accept an implant. BAaaaaaaaaaa! Line up for your implants, sheep! BAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
and one in a heart-shaped locket, how cute.
btw, in the nineties, the U.S. Army (if memory serves) did some research about how to make an implant powered by changes in body temperature. They found the two places where temperature changes the most: the back of the hand, and the forehead.
Sound familiar?
this rfid seems like a real concern, perhaps even moreso than gps, because they can give anything a unique number.
and hey, if people resist the chip too much, they'll just sneak it into vaccinations.
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Mulling over Austin Seraphin to Steve Asher 18 Feb 2006

Hi Austin,

Re: Employees Get Chip Implants
By: Steve Asher to All on Fri Feb 10 2006 10:49 pm

Derp! This citywatcher guy will joyfully accept an implant.
BAaaaaaaaaaa! Line up for your implants, sheep!
BAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
and one in a heart-shaped locket, how cute.

btw, in the nineties, the U.S. Army (if memory serves) did some
research about how to make an implant powered by changes in body temperature. They found the two places where temperature changes
the most: the back of the hand, and the forehead.

Sound familiar?

From memory, the Applied Digital "Digital Angel" was capable of being
powered by body heat, but they seem to be pushing the VeriChip. It
would perhaps be more useful for the U.S. military, as it is passive,
and should work just as well on a corpse as on a wounded soldier.

this rfid seems like a real concern, perhaps even moreso than gps,
because they can give anything a unique number.
and hey, if people resist the chip too much, they'll just sneak it
into vaccinations.

Well, the UK medical system is introducing RFID wrist bands for surgery patients, to cut down on medical errors. Personally, I doubt that any precaution will eliminate human error - patients will still get the
wrong leg cut off, or have their appendix removed instead of their
ingrown toenail etc.

Cheers, Steve..

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