But you can switch off your cell-phone...Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Re: VeriChip controversy
But you can switch off your cell-phone...
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Re: VeriChip controversy
Its still trackable. I see what your driving at though you can still ditch it.
If they work out the health problems the chips could be useful if done right. Done right as in no long range tracking devices or other invasions of privacy. You have to admit it could help if you've been knocked out in some crash and the doctors treating you need your medical history or need to contact your relatives.
These type of things are inevitable in the long run. Now is the time for our society to decide the proper role they'll play and make the safe guards they need.
Last edited by Lord Winter; 01-30-2009 at 18:00.
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I don't think I'd like something implanted into my body, unless there's medical need of course, but I don't think I'd mind an ID card with similar kind of chip. If someone high up gets a kick of knowing whether I'm at work, at home, at a friends house, in a bar etc... good for him...
Also, there could be advantages... Let's say you're incapacitated somewhere and in need of medical assistance. When someone from your family reports it, help can locate you immediately...
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Time to buy stock in Faraday shielded clothing.
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You mean if you forgot your cell phone? And I don’t think it even needs turned on…and your car likely has a transponder if it is fairly new…
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If you were going to control people like most fear we might be, this is how you would start.
bad idea
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Not everyone has cell phones. Sometimes people leave them at home, when they don't want to be bothered for example. Theoretically, you could fall and break the telephone. What happens if the battery runs out, does it still emits a signal?
In any case, if you're in trouble, more options for help to locate you is definitely good. On the other hand, if you already have a cell phone by which someone could track you, what's the problem with the chip? I mean, they can already track you, so it doesn't really change anything.
I'm not really keen on conspiracy theories, I truly believe that governments of the world have better things to do than watching what I and billions of other people in the world do day after day in hope of seeing "something"...
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Come on, calm down everyone. Your all treating this like it's a mandatory tracking device that is constantly transmiting your position to Hitler, Big Brother and your neighborhood serial killer. Right now its a limited volentary thing which mainly serves as a computer chip that stores your medical files, not a transmiter. Can we tone down the drama a bit? An Orwellian police state is not around the corner.
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
-Stephen Crane
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Come on, calm down everyone. Your all treating this like it's a mandatory tracking device that is constantly transmiting your position to Hitler, Big Brother and your neighborhood serial killer. Right now its a limited volentary thing which mainly serves as a computer chip that stores your medical files, not a transmiter. Can we tone down the drama a bit? An Orwellian police state is not around the corner.
I think the worry is that this brings the government one step closer to it...
I'm not really keen on conspiracy theories, I truly believe that governments of the world have better things to do than watching what I and billions of other people in the world do day after day in hope of seeing "something"...
Its not so much that they're going to watch everyone but if they decide your a threat you would be easier to monitor...
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A bored public official is more than bad enough for me.
Forget the large-scale stuff, think about the small-scale stuff. Who cares whether you trust the government or not? It's not the president who's tasked with the manual labour of looking at tapes. However, your girlfriend's jealous and obsessive ex who wants nothing better than to frame you is in charge. Or whatever nemesis you can think of.
Gah! The statement that "hey, I trust president xxx, so I'm ok with him video-taping me" is the dumbest statement ever.
Last edited by HoreTore; 01-31-2009 at 16:49.
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