Wisconsin – no human microchips

Manufacturing News, Source : The Manufacturer US
Published : 22 Jun 2006 15:38

Civil libertarians and conspiracy theorists take note: Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed a first-of-its-kind law which makes it a crime to require an individual to be implanted with a microchip.

Anti-RFID activists and authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre predict trouble for the VeriChip Corporation, makers of a human microchip implant. Albrecht and McIntyre are the authors of Spychips: How Mayor (sic) Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move With RFID, which warns us that “efforts are being made now by global corporations and the U.S government to turn this advanced technology, these spychips, into a way to track our daily activities—and keep us all on Big Brother’s short leash.”

Bert Moore, editor of AIM Insights, the newsletter of auto-ID association AIM Global, opines that the law “proves…that if you make enough noise and get enough people worried about something that might, possibly, sometime happen, you can get someone, somewhere to enact legislation against it.

While Albrecht admits "We're not even aware of anyone attempting to forcibly implant microchips into people," she points out "that lawmakers felt this legislation was necessary indicates a growing concern that the company's product could pose a serious threat to the public down the road."

AIM’s Moore is not concerned about the slippery slope – rather, the “forward thinking” nature of the act. “What's particularly interesting about the Wisconsin legislation is that it outlaws an act that has not yet been proposed by anyone (except, possibly, some covert applications in which it might provide life-saving benefits). Perhaps it was a slow legislative session. Perhaps it was just that primaries are coming up.”

Conspiracy theorists are less optimistic than Albrecht and McIntyre, and in a wave of on-line blog activity, pointed out that it is useless to regulate the visible government (which is comprised of actors) when it is actually a shadow government that will use “spychips” to track individuals.

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