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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.
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.
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:31 pm
How quickly does "a chance" turn into "you better,or you're out..."
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:33 pm
I mean, I don't do anything illicit that I would give a shit if my company "tracked" me. If they really wanted to, they could do that with my keycard anyhow.
I'd try it, to see if it made other things easy. So long as I had the opportunity to get it removed/disabled whenever I wanted.
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:35 pm
(February 3, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Alex K Wrote: How quickly does "a chance" turn into "you better,or you're out..."
When Homeland Security hears about it? Almost instantly.
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:37 pm
I already carry their fucking RFID-enabled keycard wherever I go.
However, the chances of anyone getting close enough to inject a chip into my flesh is vanishingly close to zero.
Just ask the doc that wanted to run a catheter down through my neck. "Like hell you are. You and what army?" (I will note that said doc won that battle, but only after I was heavily sedated.)
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:39 pm
Imagine how much you would have fought if he wanted to put one up your dick?
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:41 pm
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(February 3, 2015 at 5:33 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I mean, I don't do anything illicit that I would give a shit if my company "tracked" me. If they really wanted to, they could do that with my keycard anyhow.
I'd try it, to see if it made other things easy. So long as I had the opportunity to get it removed/disabled whenever I wanted.
They might be able to track you on their premises with the keycard, but it would be difficult to do outside of that, no? An RFID chip should make it easy to track you all over, unless maybe the transimission of the frequency is too weak? Maybe someone with more knowledge on that can enlighten us.
Still, you would have to trust your company that it was only a tracking chip they were injecting into you.
And it's not a matter of doing anything illicit. It's a matter of privacy, and giving away your privacy is giving others power over you.
Even with the RFID keycards you can choose to leave those somewhere. You don't have to carry them on your person at all times. You have no such liberties with an inserted chip without digging into your flesh.
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Potato and tortilla are the only chips going inside me.
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2015 at 5:58 pm by Jackalope.)
(February 3, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Imagine how much you would have fought if he wanted to put one up your dick?
Yeah, that only happened after they put me in an induced coma. :p
Not kidding.
They removed it when I was conscious. Nurse says "this won't hurt". I says " you're lying". She was.
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RE: Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?
February 3, 2015 at 5:56 pm
(February 3, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Faith No More Wrote: (February 3, 2015 at 5:33 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I mean, I don't do anything illicit that I would give a shit if my company "tracked" me. If they really wanted to, they could do that with my keycard anyhow.
I'd try it, to see if it made other things easy. So long as I had the opportunity to get it removed/disabled whenever I wanted.
They might be able to track you on their premises with the keycard, but it would be difficult to do outside of that, no? An RFID chip should make it easy to track you all over, unless maybe the transimission of the frequency is too weak? Maybe someone with more knowledge on that can enlighten us.
The embeddable RFID chips don't (and can't) transmit unless they're in close proximity to a receiver.
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