US Company to Implant Microchips in Employees

[LASER_oneXM]

Three Square Market (32M), a Wisconsin-based business, will become the first US company to implant RFID microchips in employee's hands.

The decision is nothing more than a media stunt orchestrated by 32M in partnership with BioHax, a Swedish-based company that provides bio-friendly implantable RFID microchips.

32M is a provider of break room food dispensers and has recently added support for implantable RFID microchips, allowing anyone to pay for food just by waving their RFID-implanted hand near one of their devices.

Company holding a "chip party"
To show that RFID implants are safe, the company will provide free RFID implants to all employees during a "chip party" on August 1. Implants are optional.

Besides the benefit of using Jedi-like tricks when buying food from office break rooms, 32M and BioHax say the chip has secondary benefits, such as opening access doors, activating office copy machines, automatic login for work computers, unlocking work phones, sharing business cards, and even storing critical medical/health information.

32M hopes their stunt will garner enough media attention, so other companies will consider the benefits of employee implants.

The benefit for 32M is that once companies adopt RFID implants — for any other reasons — they'll be able to push their RFID-friendly food dispensers to those companies' office break rooms.

 

[ispx]

seriously

& the employees are ok with this corporate violation of their anatomy ?

 

[frogboy]

It is voluntary so who would put their hand up for this. Not me.

 

[Deletedmessiah]

That was faster than I expected

 

[brambedkar59]

All of those things could be done using any smartphone with NFC.

 

[antreas]

WTF is wrong with US

 

[StriderHunterX]

This is scary.

It feels like the first step toward complete surveillance.I hope I'm wrong....

 

[Trooper]

Saw this yesterday. No way will I let anyone put that crap into my body.

 

[Tiny]

Me neither!
We can all grow Our own Food,
and build Our own small kozy huts
and help eachother With kindness
from Our hearts,
no problem at all.

Depends really. In some parts of Japan elderly with dementia I think are tagged with barcodes to keep track of them. Not the same as these chips, but there could be some useful application for this in terms of security.

 

[Tiny]

Also, how long have you been using Privoxy for and is it any good?

 

[Winter Soldier]

They say that it is an idea that will revolutionize our way of living, but it seems this invention will produce a distressing effect, especially in terms of personal freedom!

 

[Winter Soldier]

Double Edged Sword..
vs

Yeah, in my opinion, it is the first step toward the human "homogenisation".
You consider that after the tipping point, it is impossible to go back.

 

[Winter Soldier]

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