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Why there ought to be a law! Wisconsin might become the first state to ban the mandatory implantation of RFID “spychips” into people.

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/14418898.htm

MADISON, Wis. - Former Gov. Tommy Thompson was one of the first high-profile supporters of tiny microchips implanted in people’s arms that would allow doctors to access medical information.

Now the state he used to lead is poised to become the first to ban governments and private businesses from forcing such implants on employees, privacy advocates say.

A proposal moving through the state Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge. Violators would face fines of up to $10,000.

The plan authored by Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, won approval in the Assembly last month. The state Senate on Tuesday is scheduled to consider the measure, which would allow for the implants if the person gives consent.

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There are damn few laws out there that I support, this type of law is one of them. It prevents corporations from abusing its influence over an employee, by preventing them from requiring, as a condition of employment, to be implanted with one of these spychips.

It’s not that I’m not sure that the free market will eventually fix this kind of stuff, its just I’m not sure that I’ll live that long. I also have less of a problem curtailing the “rights” of corporations.

…“I don’t think most people had thought about this as an issue, but it’s scary. It’s reality now,” said Michael Schoenfield, an aide to Schneider. “Companies can or will be ordering their employees to have chips implanted. We want to stop that before it begins.”

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These types of RFID spychips are being used more and more to automate all kinds of inventory, including livestock. Don’t let yourself be treated as livestock. These chips are activated by a burst of radio waves and report off their string of embedded serial numbers without informing the host. RFID spychip readers can be hidden or disguised as a number of plain ordinary objects. The bottom line is that you never know someone is reading the secret serial number embedded in that “promiscuous” chip that you let yourself get implanted with.

Fax or call you congress-critters. Let’s get this passed in all fifty states.

Related Tags: RFID, spychips, smartchips