August 03, 2004
RFID Chips Track Human Resources
Recently, Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha announced that he and 160 employees of the anti-crime center in Mexico City have been implanted with VeriChip's subdermal RFID tracking chips. VeriChip is a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions, headed by CEO Scott R. Silverman, who says that approximately 1,000 people worldwide have been chipped with his company's product so far.
Peter Lewis at Fortune.com reports:
According to Silverman of Applied Digital Solutions, some 1000 people in the U.S. and elsewhere have RFID chips implanted in their bodies. Most, he said, sought the chips as a way to relay medical information to emergency workers instantly and reliably if, say, they had a heart attack or fell into a diabetic coma. The trouble is, the federal Food and Drug Administration still hasn't given its approval for human injection of subcutaneous RFID chips for such medical purposes.
Read more: RFID: Getting Under Your Skin?
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