U.S. companies developing implants which would make surveillance easier
Barcodes and microchips could be found on nearly everything these days, but could humans be next?
American science fiction author Elizabeth Moon raised a few eyebrows last week when she revived the debate about whether it could be beneficial to place barcodes on babies at birth during an interview on a BBC radio program.
‘I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached — a barcode if you will — an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals,’ she said on a weekly show called The Forum, according to the New York Daily News.
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| Barcoded: A science fiction writer has suggested that placing barcodes on people at birth would enable the state to track them with greater efficiency Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153587/Science-fiction-writer-resurrects-controversial-idea-slapping-BARCODES-infants-birth-make-surveillance-easier.html#ixzz1wpXCBAWp |
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