Employee microchips

Optional but I'm sure plenty of peer pressure to do it. One article claimed it would allow access not just to silly stuff like vending machines but also stuff like copy machines.

I joked in another forum, I'd be the guy who'd grab someone and shove their hand onto the copy machine ... "Thanks! Needed a couple of copies!"
 
I can see it now..... cops pull over a car, detect an odor coming from the car and discover numerous severed hands in the back.....
 
Going to get real awkward when they require a swipe to open the restroom stall doors.
 
In 10-15 yrs. it will be commonplace to have one. There will be loud warnings from the religious right but they will be dismissed by the liberal media. You will go to your local DMV to get the implant. Credit cards will still be an option but like cash today used less and less frequently. Cash will dissapear. It will be sold to the masses as a convenience. The banks and government will want it for the security. Infants will get one shortly after birth to prevent mixups. Old people with dementia will get them. Chip readers will become a standard feature of your smartphone. There will be a few holdouts, but it will become increasingly difficult to function in society without one. Then it will become mandatory. Again there will be objections but again they will be dismissed.
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SkyDog58 said:
Any employee that goes along with this is a spineless slug.
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Yep, just like the other 90% of spineless slugs. Peer pressure will make them. It is just a tatoo that you can't see. Employees that do not have the implant will be passed over for promotion. If you don't believe in the product for yourself how can you sell it to others.
 
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Companies that require employees to carry ID cards or badges have been tracking where they are and what they're doing for a long time.
 
My company put tags on all our mine lamps. It was a very expensive project for them, they had to run 10's of miles of fiber optic cable in the mine to pick up the tags and send it to a server that projects everyone's location on a map of the mine. It is a safety feature that will allow mine rescuers to locate folks in a mine accident.

They also have tags on all the equipment. Shows a real time picture of were trucks, loaders, drills, powder trucks.......are at.

Video cameras are everywhere, and they use them to disciple the workers. One friend was written up for not putting on a seatbelt when he moved a truck. Another worker was written up for taking a **** next to his haul truck. I could go on and on about haw may folks they have written up because of the cameras.

Safety is one thing but when they start discipline folks via a video camera that's bullsh*t.

It'll be a cold day in hell when they implant a tag on me....
 
I am thinking people will be killed for their chip, then re-implanted into the criminal, for unforeseen nefarious reasons.
No chip for me.
 
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AKBill said:
It'll be a cold day in hell when they implant a tag on me....
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Ditto AKBill.

This IoT (Internet of Things) is getting a little out of hand. But to go to implants for access... uh, no.

As for crawling under the door... men's room floor is filthy. Only do this in the women's restroom. :p
 
SkyDog58 said:
Any employee that goes along with this is a spineless slug.
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Or just really really needs the money. People will do anything if the economic conditions are bad enough.

In this case, they could probably find another job. In some places and cases, no.
 
Morgan3820 said:
In 10-15 yrs. it will be commonplace to have one. There will be loud warnings from the religious right but they will be dismissed by the liberal media. You will go to your local DMV to get the implant. Credit cards will still be an option but like cash today used less and less frequently. Cash will dissapear. It will be sold to the masses as a convenience. The banks and government will want it for the security. Infants will get one shortly after birth to prevent mixups. Old people with dementia will get them. Chip readers will become a standard feature of your smartphone. There will be a few holdouts, but it will become increasingly difficult to function in society without one. Then it will become mandatory. Again there will be objections but again they will be dismissed.
Have a great day!
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Based on the ACLU's history of supporting privacy rights, I would expect them to take issue with mandatory implantation of ID chips.

https://www.aclu.org/search/privacy?f[0]=field_date:2017
 
One thing it would do, is eliminate the problem of clocking in 'your buddy' at work!
 
So as I understand it, the RFID chip just beams back a fixed number when hit with a radio beam/interrogation signal. So really what you have here is an ID badge which many people already have to carry for work except this one you can't take off(or lose). That last bit is actually an advantage to the employee. If you're not the paranoid sort it actually has a lot going for it from the employee perspective.

Cloning/spoofing one would be remarkably simple, I don't think anyone's hands need to be chopped off. They were briefly putting these things in credit cards until someone figured out you could walk around with a reader and lift people's credit card info out of their wallets at a significant distance undetected.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think they'll ever become a thing because there will be enough people in the public who don't understand the technology and are afraid of it to delay it long enough for facial recognition technology to come in and supplant it. NM, we can track you without you having to have anything with you now, go about your business!
 
cowman said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think they'll ever become a thing because there will be enough people in the public who don't understand the technology and are afraid of it to delay it long enough for facial recognition technology to come in and supplant it. NM, we can track you without you having to have anything with you now, go about your business!
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I am violently allergic to metals so I for one will never agree to this. I don't even let them put metal crowns on my teeth without doing a skin test. (High noble: gold, silver, copper is what I tolerate). Unless your chips are that, I will run screaming.
 
nauga said:
...only for the person that has to clean the broom closet.

Nauga,
who knows a steamer isn't just a kitchen appliance
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nauga said:
...only for the person that has to clean the broom closet.

Nauga,
who knows a steamer isn't just a kitchen appliance
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And a Cleveland steamer just isn't from clevealnd
 
I'm an IT guy, not a Ludditte, but I like to mess about - years ago, when government checks were printed on punch cards, with the MICR encoding on the bottom, all the Vets at my college would gather on "payday", run our checks through a keypunch machine, plugging in random punches. Then we'd use the bulk tape eraser to hose the MICR. (the VA was a favorite target of hatred back then, too - they've remained consistently incompetent for decades).

When my state went to mag stripe on driver's licenses, then OCR - you get the idea. In a more serious vein, I stopped using my debit card in retail locations a while back, and I don't have much in the way of apps on my phone that require location data. You don;t have to be data-invisible, just have a lower profile than the average bear.

Anyway, after implanting the chip, someone will get a staff infection, suffer a fatal allergic reaction, or be scammed in some clever fashion. . .
 
Morgan3820 said:
In 10-15 yrs. it will be commonplace to have one. There will be loud warnings from the religious right but they will be dismissed by the liberal media. You will go to your local DMV to get the implant. Credit cards will still be an option but like cash today used less and less frequently. Cash will dissapear. It will be sold to the masses as a convenience. The banks and government will want it for the security. Infants will get one shortly after birth to prevent mixups. Old people with dementia will get them. Chip readers will become a standard feature of your smartphone. There will be a few holdouts, but it will become increasingly difficult to function in society without one. Then it will become mandatory. Again there will be objections but again they will be dismissed.
Have a great day!
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Anyone that tells me I have to put a microchip in my body can **** off. It has nothing to do with faith. It's about my freedom. There is no way in hell im getting chipped. That would definitely push me over the edge.
 
Mike Smith said:
Maybe it's because I'm old, maybe it's because I am a Christian or whatever, but it's hard for me to understand how anyone would agree to this.
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I see it the other way. Large percntages think getting tattooed over significant portions of their body is OK. Why would a tiny chip cause them any concern. Most people do not think past tomorrow.
 
Morgan3820 said:
I see it the other way. Large percntages think getting tattooed over significant portions of their body is OK. Why would a tiny chip cause them any concern. Most people do not think past tomorrow.
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I always liked that comedian's routine that talked about talking to a teen who got a dolphin on her belly... and what it would look like someday when she got pregnant. LOL. Shamu!
 
You people are thinking about it all wrong. Nobody is going to form a Government line and inoculate the masses with chips against their will.

No, they will sell it to the masses. First the iPhone, then the iWatch, Google Glasses, imagine a device, implanted in your brain, that can do ALL of those things, and you don't even have to carry it around.

I'm telling you, people will stampede over each other to get the iChip.

-Dictation by memory
-3D games and interactive virtual porno
-Foreflight will take on a new dimension. You look out the windscreen and there is your magenta line.
-You can personally take a whipped cream pie, and in the best Gilliganesque form, chuck it in to the POTUS' face (*small fee plus tracking agreement required)
-Order groceries without even waking up (ladies, be careful of how you specify those cucumbers)
-**** people off and get ejected from Internet message boards while doing laps at the pool

We're halfway there.
 
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Any of you have an enhanced driver license? I do. It's what Alaska issues. Big Brother already has me carrying an rfid chip. They know where I am. I doubt the care, but they know.
 
AKBill said:
My company put tags on all our mine lamps. It was a very expensive project for them, they had to run 10's of miles of fiber optic cable in the mine to pick up the tags and send it to a server that projects everyone's location on a map of the mine. It is a safety feature that will allow mine rescuers to locate folks in a mine accident.

They also have tags on all the equipment. Shows a real time picture of were trucks, loaders, drills, powder trucks.......are at.

Video cameras are everywhere, and they use them to disciple the workers. One friend was written up for not putting on a seatbelt when he moved a truck. Another worker was written up for taking a **** next to his haul truck. I could go on and on about haw may folks they have written up because of the cameras.

Safety is one thing but when they start discipline folks via a video camera that's bullsh*t.

It'll be a cold day in hell when they implant a tag on me....
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I can see having a locator for the work you do. Hopefully you will never need to use it. As for the cameras used for discipline, I agree with ya.
 
Dang! And here I've been refusing to sign on the dotted line to allow my company access to my credit report for no good reason. Sign me up as one of the microchip holdouts.
 
"Each chip costs $300, and the company is picking up the tab. They're implanted between a person's thumb and forefinger. "

They are paying too much. It only costs $50 to microchip a dog or cat. I think the company should hire a vet to do it, and give the $250 savings to each employee.

As a bonus, using the vet will provide a nation-wide registration, so if the employee becomes lost and shows up at an animal shelter somewhere, the company will get a call.
 
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