Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:29 pm
My answer is fuuuuck no, but apparently, not everyone feels the same.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477
Now, the article says that 700 people will be "offered the chance," so it apparently isn't mandatory. Still, allowing myself to be tracked so easily doesn't bode well with me, and before anyone mentions my cellphone, I can at least turn that off.
Quote:Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477
Now, the article says that 700 people will be "offered the chance," so it apparently isn't mandatory. Still, allowing myself to be tracked so easily doesn't bode well with me, and before anyone mentions my cellphone, I can at least turn that off.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell