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RFID or Radio Frequency Identification, is not at all a new technology and has been used widely and publicly just not on humans. British employees are not the only employees concerned about these microchip technologies. Indeed employees from the United States to Sweden are also highly concerned about the technology. Many states have already moved in the United States limiting employers forcing the technology on employees. Indeed privacy, labor rights and general rights are a huge concern and issue, as expressed by people inside the medical community and outside the medical community. Not to mention the express concern that this technology can be used by marketers to advertise to people while there sleeping no less.
Like all other technologies, they can be used for good or bad; in covert 'medical' experiments to employer encouraged; to communicating via media, either closed circuit media or mass media, not to mention fraud, theft and crime. Like RFID media devices from cell phones to TVs to computers are all means of communicating. These technologies are not technologies of the future. These technologies have been around for some time and are being used in more perverse and prevalent ways on human beings. Not to mention widening the door to traditional and non-traditional methods of spying and espionage, creating daunting national security issues.
Many find it far fetched that one could use RFID and a device like your TV or cellphone to communicate with a person. The simple reality is the technology is there. The technology makes such things possible. Often where there is profit there is a will to use such technologies on people, even if covertly, with no or little regard to cost to the human being / employee. As Elon Musk has often communicated this is possible right now. This is not way off in the future. RFID technology was created in 1983. This technology has been here for decades.
It's a convenient way to deal with security, but it raises privacy concerns. According to a new story in the Guardian, BioTeq is one of several firms that companies in the U.K. are hiring to implant RFID microchips into their employees. The employees can then use the chips to access company buildings and store information.
PUT THE CHIP IN ME BioTeq founder Steven Northam told the Guardian that most of the company’s work is for individuals who want to use the the chips to access their own homes and cars. However, it has implanted RFID chips in the hands of workers in the financial and engineering sectors, too — though the procedure is voluntary. It’s also shipped the chips to other countries including Spain, France, Germany, Japan, and China. LABOR RIGHTS Workers’ rights groups in the U.K. are up in arms about the trend of implanting workers with microchips, which they worry will give employers new tools to surveil employees. “Microchipping would give bosses even more power and control over their workers,” said Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, in an interview with the Guardian. “There are obvious risks involved, and employers must not brush them aside, or pressure staff into being chipped.”
Would you voluntarily get an RFID Chip? Why? Why not? What if your employer asked you to do so?
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