Why aren't humans chipped at six weeks old?

[Mikes10]

In Sweden:

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-workers-microchip-implant-cash-card-id-pass-replace-employee-hand-epicenter-rice-grain-size-a7670551.html

[carosio]

Include a tracking device so the government (or the wife) will know where we are at all times, unless we screen the signal.

[Harrystottle]

Great idea! Job creation for doctors that do the deed and for bent doctors that undo it.

 

Exactly! If a chip is put in, it can be taken out again. And to further complicate matters, be swapped for somebody else's chip who takes yours...

[The Joker]

Exactly! If a chip is put in, it can be taken out again. And to further complicate matters, be swapped for somebody else's chip who takes yours...

 

Nonsense.

 

To paraphrase New Labour and the Trumpet, this will be the greatest, most secure, most amazing, incredible and beautiful IT project since the last one*

 

*the NHS IT project that cost billions and was eventually scrapped

[mickey finn]

I thought RFID chips were dead easy to copy, delete and reprogram without any invasive procedures, maybe I heard wrong.

[I1L2T3]

This doesn't even make sense, how would the identity of someone, something that is already relatively easy to establish tell you whether they're trustworthy or not.

So they're Joe Blogs, so what? And how do you "check their chip" over the internet or phone, the way that most loans are arranged?

 

Yeah it's nonsense.

 

It could only be usefully used to confirm identity, and that is already possible with a plethora of biometric data - eyes, fingerprints, facial features - without having to implant something into a person.

[Harrystottle]

Nonsense.

 

To paraphrase New Labour and the Trumpet, this will be the greatest, most secure, most amazing, incredible and beautiful IT project since the last one*

 

*the NHS IT project that cost billions and was eventually scrapped

 

I had a job interview for a post on that project. It was the oddest job interview ever! Suffice it to say that the eventual inglorious demise of the NHS IT wunder project came as no surprise.

[Jim Hardie]

This doesn't even make sense, how would the identity of someone, something that is already relatively easy to establish tell you whether they're trustworthy or not.

So they're Joe Blogs, so what? And how do you "check their chip" over the internet or phone, the way that most loans are arranged?

 

He's having you on.

[Cyclone]

If he's going to try to troll though, he should at least make sure that the trolling logic is internally consistent.

[The Joker]

If he's going to try to troll though, he should at least make sure that the trolling logic is internally consistent.

 

but it wouldn't be trolling then