Would you let your employer implant a chip in you?

[Fireball]

No longer in the work force, but not a chance would I ever have given any of my former employer(s) a chance like that. I had a badge to get me in the buildings; that's enough, thankyouverymuch.

[Shell B]

This is the height of sacrificing self for convenience. A swipe card could do the same thing without presenting any risk at all. No employer will ever inject me with fucking anything.

[Minimalist]

No.

No, not just "no."  FUCK NO.

[Jackalope]

No fucking way. I carry an RFID-enabled security card, we have security cameras everywhere, and everyone knows everyone else in our (small) office. Even if that were not so, no fucking way.

Did I mention that there's no fucking way I would consent to this?

[brewer]

Meh. As long as I could verify what was accessible, I would probably do it.

Not much different than carrying a NFC card in my wallet wherever I go.

Not For Copulation?

[Jackalope]

Meh. As long as I could verify what was accessible, I would probably do it.

Not much different than carrying a NFC card in my wallet wherever I go.

Not For Copulation?

Near Field Communication. Operationally similar to RFID.

[FatAndFaithless]

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.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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.

[Autumnlicious]

I work in ad tech.

Let me flatly state that just because it seems harmless or limited now is no assurance on it remaining that way.

I've witnessed the new advertising SDKs and they are amazing at turning what used to be nearly useless data into geolocation. Magnetic anomalies, accelerometer vector summation, strong bluetooth beacons, cell id tracking, Bluetooth proximity scanning and hashing, the old approach of "Oh, it is safe because it needs proximity # to function" is bullshit.

I wouldn't take an NFC chip on grounds that coupling with it for tracking purposes will become ubiquitous within five years of it approaching saturation.

A band, ring, patch or pendant does just as well without the "takes a knife to remove it" part.

Just imagine being fired and having to be "operated" on as part of severance.

[Joods]

Was anything else on the chip besides ID? Who implanted the chip? Was it voluntary?

Our dogs are always chipped with our name/address/phone.

I don't know if anything else was on it, just the ability to access my medical file quickly when needed. Small star tatooed on my right forearm to tell them where it is. The implantation was done by a third party firm hired by the US government. I did okay the work, it was not mandatory. 

I had the chip tested by a local vet. He couldn't detect it at more than a few inches.

And therein lies my problem...
Not knowing what else was accessible.
Being installed by a "third party".
Being a third party " hired by the govt".

Way too many personal issues with this to even consider being chipped a possibility.