Admin Comment by Sinclair on November 13, 2012 at 5:58pm

" Andrew would be one of eight people to undergo the RFID implantation among the 500 or so attendees of Toorcamp, a hacker conference and retreat near the northwest corner of Washington State. Graafstra’s “implantation station” was set up in the open air: Any camper willing to spend $30 and sign a liability waiver could have the implantation performed, and after the excitement of Andrew’s injection, a small line formed to be next.

And why volunteer to be injected with a chip that responds to radio signals with a unique identifier, a procedure typically reserved for tracking pets and livestock? “I thought it would be cool,” says Andrew, when we speak at a picnic table a few minutes after his injection. (The pain, he tells me, was only a short pinch, followed by a “weird feeling of a foreign body sliding into my hand.”)"

http://exaltedtruth.com/2012/08/15/want-an-rfid-chip-implanted-into...

Comment by Kathy on November 13, 2012 at 8:58pm

State of New Jersey Awards RFID contract to Radiant: RFID 5-Year Emergency Management Solution Contract

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) October 18, 2012

Radiant RFID (“Radiant”) announced today that the State of New Jersey has awarded the company a five-year contract to assist evacuation and emergency tracking during catastrophic events.

Radiant will provide the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (OHSP) with a managed evacuation solution that tracks evacuees, pets, emergency transport vehicles and commodities deployed at state shelters in preparation for and in the event of a hurricane, natural disaster or other man-made incident to assist in reunification of families. In addition, Radiant will manage hardware components, deployment processes and training as well as all maintenance and management functions in support of the State of New Jersey.

Utilizing the latest in passive RFID technology, Radiant’s Emergency Management Solution is the only RFID-based solution designed to assist emergency management teams with large-scale evacuations by making the continuous movement of people, pets and assets easy to track without repeatedly stopping people to take their names or scan bar codes. The seamless tracking helps eliminate lines, reduce redundancy and keep families together in times of emergency.

for more on this article::::http://exaltedtruth.com/2012/11/12/state-of-new-jersey-awards-radia...

Admin Comment by Prodigal Son on November 14, 2012 at 4:39pm

Wikipedia reports this about Graafstra, who's "implantation station" this occurred at:

"Amal Graafstra, author of the book "RFID Toys," asked doctors to place implants in his hands. A cosmetic surgeon used a scalpel to place a microchip in his left hand, and his family doctor injected a chip into his right hand using a veterinary Avid injector kit. Graafstra uses the implants to open his home and car doors and to log on to his computer."

Also on the same page:

"Mikey Sklar had a chip implanted into his left hand and filmed the procedure. He has done a number of media[2] and personal interviews[3] about his experience of being microchipped."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_%28human%29

This is a novelty, right now. If it were government mandated, it makes sense that there would be a standard criteria put in place for where the chip must go to operate uniformly with scanning technology made to go with it. It will not necessarily be the right hand because the technology can only work in the right hand, but as a way to make the system uniform.

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