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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
I doubt the chip can ever be made mandatory here in the U.S.A., but with the recent PATRIOT ACT zest to intrude on civil liberties and privacy I dunno, makes for some scary thoughts. I can only imagine millions of people taking to the streets in protest of being mandatorily marked this way.
A smart I.D. card is capable of digitally carrying health and other personal information. No need for intrusive surgery this way and it can still be effective even as a voluntary device.
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If I had said to you in January of 2001 that by the end of 2003 it will be possible to lock someone up indefinitely without access to a lawyer in the United States, you would have laughed so hard that you would have coughed up blood. Stranger things have happened.
But I can't see the point of burying such a chip under the skin though - people who were forced to have such surgery performed would remove it themselves or with the aid of a friend.
Worse still, if you wanted to steal the identity of someone else (to gain access to secured areas, bank accounts etc.), you would have to maim the victim to gain access to their chip. So all muggers would be equipped with a box knife and *all* victims would be physically maimed whenever they are attacked.