Companies start implanting microchips into workers’ bodies

At Swedish start-up hub Epicenter, workers can get implanted with microchips that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.

http://www.latimes.com

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Submitted 7 years ago by tranxene Key cards are so passe: Belgian workers open doors with microchip implants.

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“Conceptually, you could get data about your health, you could get data about your whereabouts, how often you're working, how long you're working, if you're taking toilet breaks and things like that.”

This is the big company dream, tracking the worker drones like cattle!

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- Appaloosa (edited 7 years ago)
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  I forsee a day in the not too distant future where chipping will be a requirement....at birth
  
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