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Oz becomes first country to microchip citizens

Published: October 14, 2016, 12:06 pm

    The land Down Under has become the first country to microchip its citizens and flaunting “mechanically augmented humans”.

    Australia’s drive to implant citizens is “a clever propaganda campaign that equates RFID microchipping with becoming superhuman, and people are begging for it,” News.com.au reported.

    By 2017 NBC News predicted earlier, Americans would all be microchipped.

    Although it is a niche market at the moment it is gaining in popularity as a firm in Sweden proved when it gave its employees the choice of having chips implanted instead of a work pass – more than 400 took up the offer.

    One Australian woman from Sydney, with chips implanted in both her hands, praised the convenience. “You could set up your life so you never have to worry about any passwords or PINs,” Shanti Korporaal told News.com.au.
    The chips, which are the size of a grain of rice, can be used like keys.

    Used as an identifier, the implant unlocks doors, transfers personal information or money to smart phones and other devices – and, of course, allows your every move to be tracked by Big Brother.

    “I’m hoping you’ll be able to pay for things with it,’ Korporaal enthused.

    Shanti maintains only “ultra-conservative Christians” on Facebook has criticised her decision and she has had more opposition to her tattoos than to the chip.

    When the 27-year-old “realised just how coveted the implants were”, she says she set up an Australian distribution service called Chip My Life with her husband, Skeeve Stevens.

    Working together with US implantable technology pioneer Amal Graafstra, who has since founded an online store to sell kits to people who want to “upgrade their body”, they maintain that chips “are like kidneys”, working hard but you’re not thinking about them.

    “It’s given me the ability to communicate with machines. It’s literally integrated into who I am,” Graafstra says.

    He is aware of the ethical and security concerns, but because the data is encrypted, and most access cards are not secure anyway, this is simply a case of “computing in the body.”

    While plastic cards contain personal and financial data often transferred to hackable databases and smartphones already serve as personal tracking devices, the option of not carrying these items, remain. Not so with a tracking device under your skin.

    Natural News, in April 2012, said that police departments were tracking cell phones without first getting a warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. In fact, the American Civil Liberties Union found that “many” of nearly 200 departments surveyed did so sans warrant. While some departments were getting the required warrant first, others “said they use varying legal standards, such as a warrant or a less-strict subpoena.

    In July the Boston Globe reported that the city’s police department had used “a controversial cellphone technology 11 times over the past seven years without once obtaining a search warrant…”

    Privacy in a digital world is fast disappearing with retinas and wallets scanned, and our online data open to hacks by both by government and by private corporations.

    If a hostile government can track its citizens, the same government can control them too.

    karin@praag.org

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