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Would you let your employer implant a chip in you?
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RE: Would you let your employer implant a chip in you?
(April 3, 2017 at 12:55 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I don't see the big hairy deal about it.  It's just a grain of rice-sized thingy that acts like a swipe card that the company offers.  I can totally understand people not being comfortable having one implanted themselves, but calling this the beginning of a dystopian future is a bit much.  Also, calling people with the swipe-chip "cyborgs" is just clickbaity hyperbole.

Yep. And the article states the reader has to be within centimeters of the chip to read it. No "metal detector" archways would notice it.
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RE: Would you let your employer implant a chip in you? - by Gawdzilla Sama - April 3, 2017 at 12:57 pm

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