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Chipping Employees - is this the way forward!

Lynsay Callaghan
Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them.

Is this really the best way to move tech along by implanting it inside our skin? Could the same chip be used in a watch or clothing? I am not sure I would be leaving this company if I had to get it removed.
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    I would rather just have one embedded in my company ID card (which it's got already).  I can take that off when I leave work.
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    If it would limit the amount of passwords we have to have and the many times we have to change them I might be up for it Lynsay Callaghan‍
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    Simon Barker:

    I would rather just have one embedded in my company ID card (which it's got already).  I can take that off when I leave work.




    Simon, that seems to be a much more sensible option.

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    Like Joanne Longton‍ I'd consider it if it put an end to remembering all the different passwords.  I also like the idea of the hospitals that are trialling it to verify when doctors/nurses wash their hands, although I note that it will be worn as a bracelet rather than being implanted into their hand.  I've lost track of the number of times I've been at hospitals and seen medical staff use the w.c. and not wash their hands afterwards!


    In Casino Royale, Bond has a microchip with a radio beacon installed into his wrist so M can keep track (supposedly) of him and I wondered whether at some point we'd reach a stage where relatives who have loved ones with Alzeheimers would be able to have a microchip installed so they could track them down if they wandered off?
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    Is this any different to having a tattoos as a medical condition monitors


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    Did you know that 20 years ago today (24 August), Professor Kevin Warwick FIET performed the first test of radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation in the UK? He had the chip implanted into his own arm!!! 


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