July 16, 2004
Mexican Law Enforcers Get Chipped
Mexico's Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha and 160 of his employees have had RFID chips implanted in their arms for security reasons. The chips are the size of rice grains and are manufactured by VeriChip Corp.
Information Week reports:
Although developed and manufactured in the United States, the chips and the scanning technologies that work with them are still pretty much blocked for most human use in this country--although that could change if the FDA approves the devices for health care and medical use. VeriChip expects a decision from the FDA soon.
"We've sold about 7,000 [chips] worldwide," Angela Fulcher, VeriChip's VP of marketing and communications, said in an interview Thursday.
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