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Putting Implants In Immigrants

Katherine Albrecht doesn't much care for RFID technology. She's the author of Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID (Nelson Current) and the founder of CASPIAN, Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, a group that's either pro-privacy or anti-business, depending on your preferred flavor of spin. Even so, my jaw dropped when I read today's press release from her organization claiming that the head of VeriChip Corporation wants to put RFID tracking chips in immigrants. Can anyone be that clueless?

It seems so. CASPIAN says, "VeriChip's [Scott] Silverman bandied about the idea of chipping foreigners on national television Tuesday, emboldened by the Bush Administration call to know 'who is in our country and why they are here.' He told Fox & Friends that the VeriChip could be used to register guest workers, verify their identities as they cross the border, and 'be used for enforcement purposes at the employer level.' He added, 'We have talked to many people in Washington about using it...' "

If this is true, I can only hope that lobbyists and politicians are forced to get chips, too. Frankly, I'm a lot more worried about keeping tabs on them.

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