Just a Grain of Rice

[dcseain]

VeriChip Wants To Test Human Implantable RFID On [US] Military. This information week article indicates that at least one company thinks we should treat military members like pets. I think this is a double plus ungood. What think you?

Thanks to lina.d for pointing this article out to me.

Comments

[fallenpegasus]

I really don't see how this is all that different/worse, or "treating like pets", than dogtags, which the military has been using for generations now.

The fact that the military considers it's people "material resources", and tracks and accounts them just like pieces of machinery, is old hat, and is already a part of military culture and dark humor.

RFID chips in troops have the same advantages over dogtags that "chipping" pet dogs/cats/birds/horses has over collar tags.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, and having worked for the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (http://www.sddc.army.mil/Public/Home), i know very first-hand that people and goods are tracked nearly identically.

I do think the level of effort to recover the chips, especially in an explosion of any type, for outweighs the benefits of replacing dogtags. Augmenting them, especially with medical info, could save a few lives, and possibly hasten notiication of family in the event of injury.