Employee microchipping gains traction in Sweden

[HEXUS]

About 150 workers at Epicenter agreed to be NFC 'microchipped' for convenience sake.

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[Corky34]

Those must be some epic smoothies.

[shaithis]

I'm not allowed to state my actual thoughts on this......but needless to say I wouldn't be happy about it!

[Luke7]

I feel like anyone that goes to the gym and lifts weights will either break these or be in a world of pain... I certainly wouldn't fancy deadlifting 180kg with that stuck in my hand

[chj]

I'm not allowed to state my actual thoughts on this......but needless to say I wouldn't be happy about it!

It's information you'd already have on your person and I don't think it would be much of a procedure to get back out. Or is it the thought that it's the start of a slippery slope to something worse?

[shaithis]

It's information you'd already have on your person and I don't think it would be much of a procedure to get back out. Or is it the thought that it's the start of a slippery slope to something worse?

The day the company I work for is allowed to embed a chip in my body, is the day I start a crusade. Yes, these are voluntary......for now.

[Lanky123]

If carrying a card around was so much bother they could have attached the RFID chip to a ring, a wristband, RFID cufflinks...the possibilities are almost endless before you have to consider implanting them and worrying about complications or eventual removal/replacement. Solution looking for a problem...

[Dashers]

No thanks.

I am more than happy to continue swinging my ID card at whatever panel needs to read it.

[Top_gun]

Not for me.

For a start, you're risking infection and toxic chemical leakages from the chip itself.

It's worth remembering that the vast majority of the employees (92.5%) in the said company is not enrolled on the RFID implant scheme.

[Ttaskmaster]

"Usually there are no screams and barely a drop of blood,"

Usually.............!!!

It's information you'd already have on your person and I don't think it would be much of a procedure to get back out.

Yeah, but I assume Near Field means someone doesn't even have to touch me to get that info, whereas what I carry currently requires them getting so intimate they'd have to marry me first... and even then I might still have to hospitalise them!
Getting the chip out is likely a bit bloodier... or a lot, if you're sacked or quit a job where your boss hates you. Modern version of upsetting the King who then demands a novice executioner for your dismissal.

Also, this chip is useless to me without RGB lighting and wireless CorsairLink!!

I am more than happy to continue swinging my ID card at whatever panel needs to read it.

Likewise.
I have a particularly fancy ID holder that I'm proud to display, with Velcro™ backing, pen holder, card slots, adjustable paracord and a Swiss Army Card multitool. You wouldn't believe how jealous everyone else is of this thing!

[rob4001]

Cashless society chipped people. Welcome do the dystopian future of control

[Luke7]

Cashless society chipped people. Welcome do the dystopian future of control

Well neither of those things are in the slightest bit distopian... nfc implants are hardly a control mechanism either. And what the hells wrong with a cashless society? I can't wait for the day we stop printing entirely redundant forms of currency.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

An NFC enabled Moose sounds rather dangerous.

[hellig]

most pets have one of these, so fear the revolt of the chipped pets

[Xlucine]

Not for me.

For a start, you're risking infection and toxic chemical leakages from the chip itself.

It's worth remembering that the vast majority of the employees (92.5%) in the said company is not enrolled on the RFID implant scheme.

Rubbish, as the article points out these are identical to pet microchips, which don't leak or harm the individual carrying them

[Ttaskmaster]

nfc implants are hardly a control mechanism either.

How old are you?
Have you not seen what happens in Wedlock, Fortress, The Running Man...??!!

And what the hells wrong with a cashless society? I can't wait for the day we stop printing entirely redundant forms of currency.

Again, have you not read the news and seen how easily human beings lose, leave behind or unwittingly facilitate the theft of hundreds of Ext HDDs, flash drives and laptops, all full of bank accounts, customer information, Bitcoins, defence plans, asset data and even nuclear secrets?

And you think these people can be trusted with electronic implants??

An NFC enabled Moose sounds rather dangerous.

How?
It just means I can track my meal...