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US company embedding RFID tags in employees

  • 29-07-2017 5:16pm
    #1
    Trojan
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    I'm sure it's already happened elsewhere but this is the first I've seen.

    https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/496874770658986/

    This can't just be a simple RFID identifier, right? To work in this kind of environment it must be active, 2-way, responding programmatically, so that it can't be read outside of the operating environment?

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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Trojan wrote: »
    I'm sure it's already happened elsewhere but this is the first I've seen.

    https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/496874770658986/

    This can't just be a simple RFID identifier, right? To work in this kind of environment it must be active, 2-way, responding programmatically, so that it can't be read outside of the operating environment?

    I saw all the outrage on Twitter, on TV and on Facebook last week. Its entirely optional, its not compulsory, the chips use NFC, same as whats in your mobile. If you don't want it, don;t opt in.

    A former employer used thumb prints to open doors and that wasn't opt-in. That irked me a lot more than an opt in NFC chip.


  • #3
    Victor
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    Are they removable?
    Deleted User wrote: »
    A former employer used thumb prints to open doors and that wasn't opt-in.
    I get the impression that these use a limited number of points and not the whole thumb print.

    The Irish Prison Service use them and a prisoner was able to abuse the system, which thought he was a guard - unfortunately for him, he was going further into the prison. :)


  • #4
    industrialhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭industrialhorse


    Trojan wrote: »
    I'm sure it's already happened elsewhere but this is the first I've seen.

    https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/496874770658986/

    This can't just be a simple RFID identifier, right? To work in this kind of environment it must be active, 2-way, responding programmatically, so that it can't be read outside of the operating environment?

    Heard about this months ago when a colleague mentioned that Swedish startup Epicentre were carrying out RFID chipping of all staff "willing" to have it implanted. Apparently they also threw parties for those who signed up!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4375730/Cyborgs-work-employees-getting-implanted-microchips.html


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