Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants

[papau]

http://www.gazetteextra.com/microchipimplants042506.asp

Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants

(Published Tuesday, April 25, 2006 08:57:58 AM CDT)


By Ryan J. Foley
Associated Press

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.
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COMMENT:WHAT GOOD IDEA! A proposal moving through the Wisconsin state Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge (per an Associated Press news report, violators would face fines of up to $10,000 under the plan authored by state Representative Marlin Schneider, which 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).

VeriChip Corp. of Delray Beach, Florida, is the only company with federal approval to implant such chips in people. The company so far has implanted 2,500 people worldwide with chips the size of a grain of rice under the skin of their upper arms, said spokesman John Procter.

In February, a Cincinnati surveillance equipment company became the first US business to use this application when a handful of employees voluntarily got implants to allow them to enter secure rooms (See Ohio Security Firm Uses Microchips Embedded in Employees). Some employees in the Mexico attorney general's office have also been implanted with chips, whose signals are recognized by readers in doorways.

The proposal would leave the door open for the state to order implants to track sex offenders or for parents to track their children under an amendment offered by Representative Scott Suder. Such applications are years away because the chips do not yet allow for surveillance tracking.
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[MikeNearMcChord]

1. One of the few issues that

would unite Progressives, Constitutional Conservatives, Fundie Christians, Libertarians and others who find somebody inserting something into your body, just to track you, evil Go Wisconsin.

[papau]

2. :-) I agree :-) Go Wisconsin! n/t

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