problem-reaction-solution anyone ?
tja .. zelfs zonder daarmee te gaan slingeren
beetje overeenkomsten zie ik wel met het hele patriot act verhaal
maar ontopic
90% of People Find VeriChip "Creepy"
More analysis on the lightning rod of our industry, VeriChip. (For those that have been living under a rock: VeriChip is the recently FDA-approved human-implantable RFID chip from Florida-based Applied Digital.) Apparently, Applied Digital's CEO admits that VeriChip is a hard sell, citing his company's own research that indicates 90% of people find it "creepy." And while it was widely reported earlier this year that the Mexican attorney general had VeriChip installed as an anti-kidnapping device, all of us actively involved in RFID know that the technology really offers nothing of the sort. These Mexico reports highlight just how much of a public misconception there is that RFID is able to actively track a person's whereabouts, a la GPS. And get this: the Mexican distributor who sold the VeriChips to the attorney general's office let it be believed that the technology had GPS-like remote tracking capabilities. Wouldn't it be better to avoid partnering with a company that dishonestly perpetuates the very falsehood about your new technology that is freaking out 90% of the public?
Then there is the point that what VeriChip claims to do -- revolutionize medical record-keeping -- is impossible. Not for any shortcoming on VeriChip's part, but simply because the healthcare industry's current messy, decentralized record-keeping system must itself be overhauled before VeriChip's benefits can actually be realized. Quips this author, "Once you've been chipped, you'll have to wait for VeriChip to connect its database—containing your medical records—with each hospital's individual system. By the time we get a national medical database, you'll probably have died of natural causes." Such limitations of the medical records opportunity force one to conclude that the intention is to eventually sell VeriChip for a far wider range of applications. Indeed, such intentions are implicit in most of the company's literature, including its homepage 4VeriChip.com, where it is noted that VeriChip "can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency identification, and other applications."
het langere verhaal
http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=2282888&s=103514954ps .. wat is er toch met die namen van die bedrijven..
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(dit stond dus in een nieuwsbrief :: Digital Angel More Than Just the VeriChip
Amid the rampant publicity surrounding the (in)famous VeriChip from Minnesota-based
Digital Angel, it is easy to forget that the company is more than simply the purveyor of what some see as the Mark of the Beast ![]()
and still others fear will devolve into a tool of Big Brother. This week the company announced a shipment of 200,000 RFID tags to Canada for use on cattle in the government-sponsored Canadian Set-Aside Program. Digital Angel is one of only four companies approved to provide RFID tags to cattle farmers participating in the program, which was started by the Canadian government after the disease scare in late 2003 seriously wounded the domestic beef industry. Said Digital Angel CEO Kevin McGrath, "We believe this is the start of what may develop into a substantial business for us in Canada."
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