Before employees who labor away in the Darth Vader building at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington get too excited, the Defense Intelligence Agency is looking to use Radio Frequency Identification chips to track its personnel -- in emergency situations ONLY, not every minute of their lives.
DIA wants a system that can automatically track all the people who enter its buildings - such as the Darth Vader HQ -- and if those buildings are evacuated in an emergency, it wants to track those who have left.
One good approach could be to combine the people-tracking function with the chip-based key fobs used to provide employee access to many buildings in the Washington area -- combing two functions in one gizmo -- and a related database.
Or, DIA could (though I doubt it would) emulate Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer at Harvard Medical School, who had an RFID chip embedded in his arm in 2005.
DIA would like to hear from small businesses who believe they can do the work by June 5.
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You doubt they would do an arm implant? They would.
Clinton signed on to a UN heatlh program that demanded every person on earth be implanted with a medical chip.I doubt the current version of president will feel and different.
Smile your on Big Brother net!
willllllo 05/24/09 08:38 am ET
Sounds as if "Big Brother" is after you. Dare i say about the mark of the devil? I can understand this explanation, but as most things, it will grow like cudzoo and be used in ways that negatively impact an employee in some manner. It will tract someone in a room for too long a time and then be explained as a computer error , we did not mean to use it that way and it just happened to be on.Let well enough alone and go back to a human commitment to honesty and integrity and your fellow employees watching out for one another with a trust.
Edmond O'Leary 05/21/09 09:54 am ET
It starts. The Government in the future will probably require embedded RFID microchips be placed in all citizens at birth, just as they now require social security numbers. This will probably grow to a worldwide phenonenom for all earthlings under the guise of tracking and safety. Tracked by advanced GPS supplemented with terrestrial cameras.
concerned 05/20/09 09:09 am ET
The start of big brother. I would love to see what the lawyers do with this one. Anyone see Minority Report?
Paranoid? ME???
I remember the commercial where a guy in the future with a long over coat was stuffing his pockets in grocery store and people were looking at him. He then proceeded to the exit and their RFID system rang all of the items up and charged him, without taking anything out of his pockets or pulling out a wallet. What they didn't say then was that he hinting then that he was planted with RFID Tag under the skin
Not Again 05/20/09 08:19 am ET