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In March 2009, British researcher Mark Gasson had a chip injected under the skin of his hand. The chip, a slightly more advanced version of the tags used to track pets, turned Gasson into a walking swipe-card. With a wave of his wrist, he could open security doors at the University of Reading laboratory, where his experiment was being conducted, and he could unlock his cell phone just by cradling it.
Implants "have the potential to change the very essence of what it is to be human," Gasson said at a 2012 TEDX Talk.
The failure of VeriChip, later rebranded as PositiveID, highlights the legal issues of microchipping people. Since 2009, at least nine states have either passed laws or proposed bills to prohibit the enforced implantation of chips.
Following Wisconsin and North Dakota,[25] California issued Senate Bill 362 in 2007, which prohibits employers and others from forcing anyone to have a RFID device implanted under their skin.[25]
On April 5, 2010, the Georgia Senate passed Senate Bill 235 that prohibits forced microchip implants in humans and that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to require them, including employers.[26] The bill would allow voluntary microchip implants, as long as they are performed by a physician and regulated by the Georgia Composite Medical Board. The House did not take up the measure.
California, North Dakota and Wisconsin already ban mandatory microchip implant.[citation needed]
On February 10, 2010 Virginia's House of Delegates also passed a bill that forbids companies from forcing their employees to be implanted with tracking devices.[27]
Washington State House Bill 1142-2009-10 orders a study using implanted radio frequency identification or other similar technology to electronically monitor sex offenders and other felons.[28]
It's in the ACA and when the requirement for health care says you must be chipped to get care, you will get chipped. It's in the bill for a reason. It was pointed out by those opposed to the ACA and then pooh-poohed by those defending the ACA, claiming those that worried about this were just paranoid. Now it seems they weren't so paranoid.
originally posted by: BasementWarriorKryptonite
No, just no. This 'everyone's gonna get microchipped' business is pure conspiratorial folly. Imagine the outcry - people simply wouldn't allow it.
I think some people are far too scared of their governments to realise that if this or any of half the crazy conspiracies that we all think about we ever attempted, authorities and governments would fall like never before. The individuals who were behind it would be jailed or worse ( or better, depending how you look at it).
It's the people who have the control and I don't see the people ever allowing this to happen.
originally posted by: Bilk22
It's in the ACA and when the requirement for health care says you must be chipped to get care, you will get chipped. It's in the bill for a reason. It was pointed out by those opposed to the ACA and then pooh-poohed by those defending the ACA, claiming those that worried about this were just paranoid. Now it seems they weren't so paranoid.
originally posted by: BasementWarriorKryptonite
No, just no. This 'everyone's gonna get microchipped' business is pure conspiratorial folly. Imagine the outcry - people simply wouldn't allow it.
I think some people are far too scared of their governments to realise that if this or any of half the crazy conspiracies that we all think about we ever attempted, authorities and governments would fall like never before. The individuals who were behind it would be jailed or worse ( or better, depending how you look at it).
It's the people who have the control and I don't see the people ever allowing this to happen.
originally posted by: Cuervo
a reply to: dreamingawake
I have zero issue with this. Even though my life and spirituality has a heavy focus on following the natural order of existence, I see this as a good thing.
No matter your path, if you believe we are creations, you probably believe we are created in a creator's image. If so, we are creators ourselves and are meant to evolve and have a say in our growth as a species. Augmenting our physicality with our own science is an expected bridge we will cross sooner or later.
Conspiracies about chips and governments and what-not are not an issue with the technology and does not make the concept itself bad or evil. If new science comes out and our thoughts are of spying and government control, that's a different issue and has nothing to do with science. That has to do with society and government which we need to fix. Until we do, we will be afraid of every new breakthrough in technology and science we make.
I even just came up with a slogan for them just now: "Can't give Big Brother the slip, may as well just get the chip!"