Workplace RFID tagging
The Financial Times reports that an American company has had two employees tagged with Verichip RFID tags as part of a trial of an RFID security system:
US group implants electronic tags in workers
An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.
CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police.
Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the controversy over RFID technology, widely seen as one of the next big growth industries.
According to its Web site, "CityWatcher.com provides security cameras, and digital video storage that are recorded over the Internet."
This isn't the first example of implanted RFID tags being used for security purposes: the Mexican Attorney General had some of his staff chipped in 2004.
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