You Can't Make This Stuff Up

It had to happen sooner or later.

Two employees at Citywatcher.com, a video surveillance company, have embedded RFID tracking chips inside their arms. The pair are thought to be the first humans in the US to have tracking technology surgically implanted in their bodies.

The company is experimenting with RFID tags for keeping track of peope who have access to the company's vaults where confidential, client data is squirreled away.

Citywatcher CEO Sean Darks also had a tracking chip placed in his arm as a goodwill gesture to the volunteers saying he "wouldn't ask somebody to do something I wouldn't do myself."

This goes way beyond anything George Orwell imagined in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-four. Big brother is watching indeed.

Comments

[Jim Logan]

I've joked a few times with friends that an RFID-type solution for parenting sounds nice - track your kid and send them a mild shock when they wander too far or don't return on time.

After your post, it isn't that funny. Or too far away???