Identification. Our passports already have microchips, and airports, train stations, and bus stations transitioning from scanning your passport to scanning your arm would be a minimal infrastructure change. Same goes for your driver’s license and ID: all the police need is a chip scanner and you can ditch your wallet completely (assuming you already replaced your credit/debit cards with NFC).
Memberships. Benefits include easy access to membership features (no more carrying around a key-card), plus the ATM component lets you track and maintain food and booze tabs. Also convenient for workplaces to control who can be where and when. Same goes for libraries, gyms, hotel and restaurant reservations, reward card management, and anywhere else you identify yourself to be granted access.
No more body mix-ups. Unfortunately, about 28,000 babies get mixed up in hospitals every year, ultimately leaving with the wrong parents. On the other end of the spectrum, bodies occasionally get mixed up at funeral homes as well, making for some very awkward situations. A chip implanted at birth completely negates less-capable persons’ inability to identify themselves.
Infant and elder safety. It’s not uncommon for elders to “escape” from rest homes. More than 2,000 children are kidnapped in the US each day (amounting to over 800,000 kidnapped children per year). Between 1.6–2.8 million youth run away from home each year. Being able to track anyone (that gives you permission to do so, of course!) at any time means peace of mind for millions of parents and caregivers across the country.
Health metadata. A simple scan can tell your doctor what you’re allergic to, what antibiotics you’ve been prescribed in the past, what medicines you’re on now, and a wealth of other information that can be taken into account when you need medical attention—even if you’re unconscious.
Theft prevention. Sure, using the RFID chip in your palm to pay for things, borrow books, or open doors isn’t much different from using the RFID in a plastic card in your wallet. There’s at least one notable difference though: you can lose or get your wallet stolen pretty easily. Parts of your body are a lot harder to steal.
Criminal management. Prisons aren’t safe places; everyone knows that. Microchipping criminals not only obsoletes prison breaks, but also improves information gathering “on the inside”. Who started the fight in the showers last night? Just rewind and inspect GPS intersections.
Law enforcement & gun control. Browning and Smith & Wesson have already embraced an implant-firearm system that requires weapons to be within close proximity of their owner to fire. Whether your arsenal is stolen from your home or an officer’s gun is wrestled out of their hands in a struggle, no one but the registered owner will be able to fire them.
Fuck that shit, I shy away from biometric ID for the same reason. Never let anyone value any part of your body more than you do. >How can I get into this building, ahh with this niggers hand. Guys wearing a watch FFS, slap an RFID patch on the back. >A simple scan can tell your doctor what you’re allergic to... Not without scanning a backend database, stay the fuck away from this pozzed shit.
Isaiah Ross
This
Julian Martinez
Mark of the Beast.
Ian Brooks
>Human Microchipping is the future Unfortunately, it's also a dystopia. Get fucked, globohomo Germ shill.
Jeremiah Garcia
Religious allegories from the acid trip that is Revelations aside, it's nothing but surveillance and control taken to another level in the name of "convenience".
Jack Torres
>be supposedly the engineering capital of the West >want to replace all identification systems with their own protections with a system with a single point of failure
Not to mention risk management thrown into the wind. It's like electronic voting: it's technically doable but it's fundamentally too risky (the damage is too great if you fuck up) and thus there's no reason to go that far.
