would you accept being required to carry a microchipped i.d.?
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Nope, start of the New World Order, have to kill me 1st.\nThrew away and cancelled my credit card when they wanted me to start using a tumb print for I.D.
827696
I have a microchip implanted in my left arm just above my elbow. It can be traced by using GPS, supermarket checkout scanners and garage door openers.
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/160905resistid.htm\n\nWhy You Should Resist the National ID Card-\n\n The introduction of the national ID card is one step further towards the mandatory implantation of ID chips in all British citizens. Does this sound outlandish? Implantable chip technology has been in existence for a decade and discussions on ID chipping humans is in the news regularly. Tommy Thompson, the former Health and Human Services Secretary in the Bush administration, had a chip implanted and is now touring the country lauding the virtues of ID chips. During the the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr., George W. Bush's nominee for Supreme Court chief justice, Roberts was questioned by Senator Joseph R. Biden on whether he would rule against a mandatory implantable microchip to track American citizens.
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I can get by nowadays without a wallet for half a day, but I'm in a small town and the checker at the store will key in my CC # (which I've memorized).\n\nSome oil companies offer RFID key chain fobs that work at their gas pumps, so that is already available in a few markets.\n\nThe police will want to see a physical driver's license for a long time, I suspect (but only if you get stopped).  Note that for a long time in Britian, people didn't carry their licenses.  If stopped, they'd give their names, and then be required to come by the station later to show their (lifetime) license.\n\nUSA borders seem to be going in the direction of MORE documentation PLUS biometrics rather than less.  Passports required for air travel from Mex and Can starting Jan '07, for instance.\n\nThe combination of a physical card PLUS knowledge of a PIN makes for better security.   There are no end of local and international scammers who, given a knowledge-only system, would lift your info from an email, phishing scheme, dishonest merchant, etc.\n\nIt can take me many days to get rid of loose change - I do so few cash transactions anymore.  I think that will continue - e-payments of some kind will only increase.  But those e-payments and proving who you are will continue to include a physical object.  And we seem to have settled on a credit-card sized object as standard.  I expect that to continue.  Only low-security things like the supermarket club card, library card and health club membership have gone to key-chain cards.  Visa/MC also, but those aren't accepted everywhere that the fullsized ones are.\n\nI do like that airline kiosks will accept my CC as proof of identity.  I wish that the library, store club, etc, would do so.  My CC a unique number and I wish these separate businesses wouldn't require a whole new card in my wallet.\n\nMy FIL's laptop requires a thumbprint to logon (end-high consulting with sensitive data).   Makes me think, "Great, someone robs me of my laptop AND they'll want to cut off my thumb!"  A downside of  biometrics.
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Probably none, since a valid Social Security number is required.\n\nWhy not immigrate legally, to avoid having to worry about things like this?
998644
You would have a hard time unless there is a criminal aspect involved.You must show id just to get info. from your own box. I think you would need a court order.
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In public, without using electronics? No.\n\nIf you are wiretapping or using other electronic devices, probably.  If you provide more details, you might get more specific help.\n\n(The laws in question will probably be Tennessee, but federal law may or may not be implicated.)
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The irony of this question and the responses that most surely follow (Not me...not happening...) is the scariest thing since the first "Nightmare on Elm Street". \n\nThere is much to be gained by having such a device placed within you as long as it is undetectable. If used properly, this device could relay medical complications before they actually develop symptoms, or just be used to identify you in place of a lost too often identification card. If this sort of system was imposed, then the problem with identity theft could be erased, and ultimately end up saving the average consumer immensive amounts of money by the fact that identity theft bullets would not have to be bitten on by businesses. \n\nI understand where the true resistors to this sort of revolution are coming from. The idea of "Big Brother" having you tagged with a microchip is a scary concept. I figure that the same way that it could trasmit small electrical signals to be deciphered by other environmental receptors for your benefit, it could be used in reverse so that you can be controlled via small electrical pulses at the brain's frequencies...\n\nI assure you, however, my friends that you should not be scared of the government having some master plan with monitoring you or controlling you... They already have been for a great amount of time. \n\nHow? Your wonderful social security number is your bar code and public media (music, t.v.) has been subliminally controlling you for decades! Is it no wonder that radical music ends up in one of two ways: commercialized and dumbed down or under-funded and hardly distributed...? Look at rap music from the nineties and from the present...How about rock...? \n\nHmmm...\n\nThat's food for thought...\n\nHope that helps...
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I think I could.  It might be a little tougher, but then again, technology is not the end all, be all for me that it seems to be for some people.
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Why not then, just go ahead. As long as you are not doing illegal activities I think that is just fine.
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I don't think that i would have the implant.We have medical records to show about ourselves,and if it is something really bad of an illness most people wear a medical bracelet to show medics or Doctor's upon arrival anyhow.I think it is great that everyday there is room for improvement with our technology,but somethings are not really in need of such extremity.This is really something you and your loved ones should sit down and discuss if you are truly serious about this issue of such an implant.Best wishes and Good Luck!
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Once RFID is in people, free society will end. I don't have a problem putting them in criminals and animals, but they don't belong in people.
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Can I have your computer?
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This is theorized, but not in use.  \nIt is theorized often in "end - time" scenarios of a cashless society by evangelical Christians (like myself).\n\nThe chip actually exists.  It only contains a number.  \nThat number can be used to reference a database and theoretically pull up an account from which you can spend like a credit card. \n\nSo: instead of swiping your card.  They would just scan your arm.\n\nThe chip is currently used in pet identification.  My dog has one implanted.  If she's ever lost and found, a vet can scan her id #.  This can be looked up in a computer database and my name will pop up as her owner. \n\nI don't think it will happen any time soon in humans. Too much resistance.  \n\nI also think the Mark of the Beast spoken about in Revelation is a physical mark to show identification and allegiance rather than a scar from a chip implant.\n\nHope that helps.\n\nP.S.  Yes, I forgot about that family in FL.  The company that makes these chips is trying to promote them for use in humans for medical records.  Like I said, I still think there will be too much resistance. Maybe people with severe life threatening conditions would feel safer having one, but it must reach "critical" mass for the hospitals to invest in scanners, etc. I don't think that will happen.
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Hi Carmellav , Seems that at the moment we can as you say "Refuse"  -- "Nothing to Hide - Nothing to Fear" but what happens when you Refuse ?? It does tend to be Irksome , yet another step toward "Big Brothers (Tony Blairs) " Police State , I suppose the next step will be that when we are pulled over we will have a "Chip" inserted somewhere into our bodies , , , I wonder where ???  In reality I have no Objection to this , anything that helps with the war against the ever growing army of Criminals must be a good move -  Good Luck
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Not unless you leave your password handy.
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if you have that id then it exist