February 12, 2006
Corporate Invasiveness Has Reached a New Level
An entry in the Livejournal Cyberpunk Collective alerted me to a Slashdot discussion about two employees who were required to get Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips installed in their arm in order to gain admission into the corporate datacenter to do their jobs. Even adding to the absurdity, these RFID chips can easily be hacked and copied.
This level of corporate invasiveness truly sets a scary precedent. You really have to wonder if this isn’t just some bad plot devised for a B-quality cyberpunk flick. One also has to wonder if you get fired, does the corporate pay for the surgery to remove the RFID chip, or do they just remove the signal from their access control list?
This post has been filed under Cyberpunked living by SFAM.
Comments
February 13, 2006
k said:
mm reminds me of a something from … soylent green …
” … next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle … ” … soon enough so it would seem
February 14, 2006
SFAM said:
No doubt…this is a pretty horrid trend. Hopefully the national ID RFID is at least another 5 years away though
February 15, 2006
k said:
ha! the RFID insert & nat-id items in today’s media; what a joke; body parts with id’s will soon hit the market in droves; what did gibson say about the mitsubishi-genentech guy sporting the tattooed M-G logo … “gear like that would get you … rolled straight into a black clinic … “; soo prescient
k said:
actually, it seems to me we’ll all have a swarm of rfid’s surrounding us courtesy walmart-land which collectively will form a shape-shifting but clear personal cyber-signature as good if not far better than any pid insert; just google-the-swarm of object id’s and ping! they’re you’ll be … rfid-girl … ddratt
February 16, 2006
SFAM said:
One really wonders whether at some point we all just get inured to this, such that everyone begins to find nothing wrong with having “yet another body implant” similar to how we currently have “yet another piece of plastic” for our wallet.