Late last month, it was reported that a Wisconsin company called Three Square
Market was planning on
surgically implanting microchips underneath the
skin of its employees for convenience purposes. Three Square Market CEO
Todd Westby told KSTP, the Twin Cities ABC affiliate station,
that the microchip implants are “the next big thing that’s inevitably going
to happen, and we want to be a part of it.”
Westby explained that the microchip would be capable of doing a
number of different things, from allowing people to purchase food in the break
room by simply scanning their hand, to serving as an electronic key to open
doors and access computers.
The microchips use Radio Frequency
Identification technology (RFID) to function, which also happens to be
the technology used when you pay for items using your iPhone or Android device.
“We foresee the use of RFID technology to drive everything from
making purchases in our office break room market, opening doors, use of copy
machines, logging into our office computers, unlocking phones, sharing business
cards, storing medical/health information, and used as payment at other RFID
terminals,”
said the Three Square Market CEO in a statement. “Eventually, this
technology will become standardized allowing you to use this as your passport,
public transit, all purchasing opportunities, etc.”
Noelle Chesley, an associate professor of
sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, believes that the
use of microchips is only
going to become more common in the not-so-distant future. “It
will happen to everybody,” she explained. “But not this year, and not
in 2018. Maybe not my generation, but certainly that of my kids.”
In fact, the idea of using microchips in
order to track the financial situations of welfare recipients has
already been suggested by one politician in Finland.
According to Sputnik News, a member of Finland’s conservative Finn
Party recently recommended implanting satellite-tracking chips inside of welfare
recipients in response to news that some recipients continued to receive
payments after leaving the country to fight for the Islamic State.
But regardless of how good the intentions may
be, there are still a lot of questions that must be answered before the people
of our country and elsewhere embrace the use of surgically implanted microchips.
Can they ever be turned off or removed? Who exactly will have access to your
location should the microchip be equipped with GPS technology? And if the
microchips contain personal information regarding health and finances, will it
be possible for that information to be hacked and potentially sold by a third
party?
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