Swedish Company Inserts RFID Chips into Workers

“We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped – the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip.”

These are the words of Hannes Sjoblad who believes he is preparing us for the day when the government wants everyone to be chipped. He believes that starting a voluntary program now will allow much greater knowledge later, when we have little choice about it.

From the BBC:

Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We’re all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach – a chip under the skin.

Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.

That’s all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they’re promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.

Questions:

• What happens to it when you quit working for the company?
• Who pays the medical bills if the site of implantation gets infected?
• How long before ‘Governments join forces with private enterprise’ to create ‘jobs’ in this industry? ie, slip their own chips into employees.
• How do we know there is no other information on the chips?
• How do we know what information is being relayed by the chips?
• How easy would it be to hack the chips?

I have about a thousand more questions and I’m sure you do also, but in my very humble opinion, the main one is who in their right mind would be insane enough to agree to having a chip inserted into their body ostensibly, in this case at least, to avoid using a door handle or pushing a button on a photocopier?

Yet more proof that you really can’t fix stupid.