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with a person throughout life."
* * The article continued: "Most likely, he added, it woud be implanted on * the back of the right or left hand for convenience, `so that it would * be easy to scan....It could be used as a universal identification card * that would replace credit cards, passports, that sort of thing. At the * checkout stand at a supermarket, you would simply pass your hand over * a scanner and your bank account would automatically be debited." There it is again: people talking about assigning everyone a biometric identifying number at birth. ---- # Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, June 1994 issue # # The Hughes Aircraft Company is selling a tiny transponder for injection # under the skin of laboratory animals. Hughes has also moved into "the # human market." # # Effective this year, the federal Food and Drug Administration requires # every breast implant carry a transponder chip with a unique identifying # number. A hand-held scanner can read the number much like a supermarket # scanner. # # The reason the government gave for the transponder was that both the doctor # and patient might lose track of what kind of breast implant was installed, # and so if a certain model had a recall, they could tell what was installed. # # # The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S. # Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research calle |
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