I have a question about 'the chip'?

Question

I keep hearing people talking about 'the chip' being implanted in people for tracking, and other reasons, I think, I don't know too much.
Anyway, is the government really going to implant little devices under our skin?

Answer 1

In the US, it cannot be done without consent -- because bodily integrity is considered a fundamental constitutional right.

But the FDA is considering allowing it to be implanted for those who voluntarily choose it.

Answer 2

This is an area of conspiracy theorising by people who are terrified of us losing our privacy, and who mistrust government and government secrecy.

From a technological perspective, look at RFID sceince. Microscopic chips have been invented, but their radio power is proportional to their size. A receiver has to be real close to the skin to hear the signal. There's also devices to update what the chip is transmitting ... like one to "turn it off" so its "battery" lasts a while, then turn it back on so it can be read.

This makes RFID (Radio Frequence Identification Device) a great tool for industrial applications, inventorying items in retail, theft prevention in major stores, identification in farm animals, pets, but this only works in a system involving honest people.

Some nations have these chips in passports.
Someone steals the passport, has access to the right technology, changes the chip, then uses the passport to pretend to be that person. Thus, putting the chip in a credit card, driver's license etc. is absoultely ineffective for knowing whether or not the person carrying it is the legal person to do so, or some identity theft fraud.

There are places where kidnap is extremely likely, and some people think that these chips should go in children to help trace them after they are kidnapped. The technology is not state-of-art where magically we can see on a map where the child is. You have to be where the kids are & run the scanner on the kid to see is that the one reported kidnapped. This means the technology helps the kidnapper more than it helps law enforcement.

There's a bunch of kids at a school & one of them is the child of a billionaire. Would be kidnapper waits at entrance to school hanging around pretending to be a family member of one of the kids, as they come rushing out, using a scanner surrupticiously to identify which kids have chips saying, in effect "I am the child of a family worth kidnapping from, because they have oodles of money."

Unfortunately, in our world we have a lot of decision makers who are technologically illiterate. Government decisions are often made based on what a slick talker says, a salesperson, a lobbyist, not what makes sense given the state of art of technology.

However, we also live in a democratic nation, where the elected representatives are supposed to represent the will of the people, and will respond to requests and complaints by their constituents, who also can include a lot who are technologically illiterate, or who have fallen for various conspiracy theories.

Answer 3

They can do this without you knowing it, they have already tested this on animals. Some people I noticed in this room is saying its not being done here in the USA, but it is. They also put micro chips in your pet here in the USA. I'll tell you how there doing this without your knowledge. And pass this on to other Americans what I'm telling you. They will secrectly put this in a vaccine that will be mandated on the poplution. The (bird flu) vaccine the microchip is in it, there is (NO) bird flu but they'll start a panic and people will have to take the vaccine. It will only be in a vaccine you get only once, and you won't know it. When our brain functions are already connected to the "Super computer" by means of radio implants and microchips, it will be too late for protest. This threat can be defeated only by educating the public, using available literature on (biotelemetry) and information exchanged at international congresses. "Please Pass this on"

Answer 4

Actually, there are companies that are trying to develop and market intra-dermal GPS locator chips. These are all part of the preying on people's fear that their child will be abducted. The technology is there, but I don't see a government mandate anywhere in the future. The most probable first launch market will be to implant the children of large corporate executives and political figures that would be considered at high risk for abduction. There are positive and negative sides to the argument to using these implants and I'm sure that anyone who has lost a child to abduction would have wanted one on their child in hind-sight, but personally, I believe that you must be prepared and aware of your environment, but I'm not going to stretch the laws of probability to get my kid low-jacked.

Answer 5

I've heard that like 2 years ago...my sister was also talking about it today...from what I remember it was a hoax...and a bunch of christians were saying that "every man would bear the sign of the beast"...therefore, this chip...I don't think this is ever going to happen, and if it does...It's just like carrying a miniscule credit card in your wrist...i don't think it will be used for tracking...

Answer 6

Won't happen. However we should use it on anyone that enters illegally into the U.S.. There are too many people that come here with similar names.

The U.N. used retinal scans to keep track of refugees going between countries.

Answer 7

If it's a standard RFID chip it might be useful-
if it contained vital medical data, for example.
RFID data transmits only a few inches.

BUT- give 'em an inch...

Answer 8

No. I do believe they are thinking of putting them in sexual predators and why not? If you are not a piece of garbage like those guys, you'll remain chipless.

Answer 9

It is Aleins doing it not the government

Answer 10

not yet but watch this space not in your life time hate conspiracy theories