[Gllug] Secure filing system?

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Feb 14 12:26:10 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:14:57PM +0000, tid wrote:
> On 14 February 2011 12:01, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Reminds me of a couple of places that demanded that members of staff that
> > were allowed into sensitive areas were chipped - as one would a dog!
> 
> Do you mean embedded under the skin? Seems like a massive infringement of
> rights to my not-very-legal brain. I got involved in a political
> 'discussion' at one
> client where the paranoid MD demanded a palm-print reader on the main
> door, and a
> number of staff objected to the company having their palm- and fingerprints on
> record. Eventually sense prevailed and a card&codekey system was introduced.

Yes:

	http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_4_51/ai_n26840904/

They say that it doesn't store information, that it doesn't 'put out a signal', it doesn't need
to - anyone can track that person who passes their reader - learn once the association
of the chip unique number and the person .. that is all that is needed, you are tracked.

	http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2008/tc20080211_165324.htm

This is what we do to our cats/dogs - not owning one I haven't really thought through
the implications:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_%28animal%29




	http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Chip_Implants/

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