[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #552: Ready to get microchipped? It's here

Wed Jul 26 10:30:04 EDT 2017

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OPLIN 4Cast #552: Ready to get microchipped? It's here
July 26th, 2017

[image: chip in arm] When you think about wearables, you likely picture
things like fitness trackers, smart jackets
<https://atap.google.com/jacquard/> or even Snap's new Spectacles
<https://www.spectacles.com/?utm_campaign=search&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=text&gclid=CjwKCAjwtdbLBRALEiwAm8pA5cMW45Ome0tc1Lgcobn57VzxjLB-WeLw3AAuY4N0g4RpdOrmcOaIGBoCOBEQAvD_BwE>.
Get ready to expand your thinking...and possibly be creeped out. It might
not be a big deal to microchip a pet, but now microchipping people is a
thing.

   - Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies
   <http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microchip-employees-20170403-story.html>
   [Los Angeles Times] "What could pass for a dystopian vision of the
   workplace is almost routine at the Swedish start-up hub Epicenter. The
   company offers to implant its workers and start-up members with microchips
   the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors,
   operate printers or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand."
   - Company Offers Free, Totally Not Creepy Microchip Implants to
   Employees
   <http://gizmodo.com/company-offers-free-totally-not-creepy-microchip-impla-1797190619>[Gizmodo]
   "Security is a major concern both because it presents new opportunities for
   hackers to steal data, and for companies to snoop on their employees. "
   - Bosses are already tracking employees with microchip implants
   <http://nypost.com/2017/04/03/bosses-are-already-tracking-employees-with-microchip-implants/>
   [New York Post] "The workers volunteered to have the microchip, which is
   about as big as a grain of rice, implanted for free. Patrick Mesterton,
   co-founder and chief executive of Epicenter, an innovation and technology
   company, told the Australian Broadcasting Company that the microchips
   inserted into employees’ hands would simplify life."
   - US tech company becomes first to microchip employees
   <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/us-tech-company-microchip-employees-first-three-square-market-wisconsin-a7856971.html>
   [The Independent] "They will be implanted underneath the skin between the
   thumb and forefinger, and will use so-called near-field communications – or
   NFC – which is the same technology used in contactless credit cards and
   mobile payments."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - One Step Closer to Robots Taking Over: Employers are experimenting
   with microchips implanted in employees
   <http://proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=122975340&site=ehost-live>.
   (*Business NH Magazine*, *34*(5), 33.)
   - Cyborgs at work: employees getting implanted with microchips
   <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=APc5762357ed0c48108fd833b0a5b8a315&site=pov-live>
   (Available from: Points of View Reference Center, Ipswich, MA. Accessed
   July 24, 2017.)
   - Swedish company implants microchips in employees
   <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=B92W2597397015&site=pov-live>
   (*UPI Top News*. Apr. 4, 2017.)

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