[News] Why Swedes are inserting microchips into their bodies

[Washie]

Not without my fingerprint you can’t. Which opens up another issue, has anyone had a digit removed for illegal phone use yet? And what if you were a pretty damn rich person, would criminals be able to remove your chip somehow?

Yes, I really can, hacking a phone is actually quite easy.

 

[SollysLeftFoot]

‘Bio hacking’ the **** is this bullshit terminology. You’re putting a ****ing chip into your skin and that’s it. Jesus Christ, I can see why this is a new craze.

So people can call themselves bio hackers...

 

[Sussex Nomad]

‘Bio hacking’ the **** is this bullshit terminology. You’re putting a ****ing chip into your skin and that’s it. Jesus Christ, I can see why this is a new craze.

So people can call themselves bio hackers...

That'll be the next thing... hacking someone's body, IT rape!

 

[Baldseagull]

seems useful, biggest concern for me is that muggers may now slit your hand open to try and get your chip.

 

[Official Old Man]

One of my European workers lost her ID last week and panic set in. When I explained that us Brits do not have to carry ID she couldn't believe it. "What if you get stopped by the police, don't you have to show something to prove who you are?". "Nope", I said, "we live in a free country".

 

[Horses Arse]

Well, would you?


ON SOME Swedish trains, passengers carry their e-tickets in their hands—literally. About 3,000 Swedes have opted to insert grain-of-rice-sized microchips beneath the skin between their thumbs and index fingers. The chips, which cost around $150, can hold personal details, credit-card numbers and medical records.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/08/02/why-swedes-are-inserting-microchips-into-their-bodies

Sorry here's a non paywall article

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...rg-rfid-chips-biohackers-biohax-a8601601.html

That Years and Years drama looks more like it was a documentary with every passing news story.

 

[Stat Brother]

seems useful, biggest concern for me is that muggers may now slit your hand open to try and get your chip.

It's the size of a grain of rice.

 

[Sirnormangall]

It's the size of a grain of rice.

It’s the thin end of the wedge - if this takes over from credit cards, loyalty cards etc my poor wife will be carrying around the equivalent of a kilo bag of rice inserted in her hand.