The New York Times announced a new implantable ‘Identity Badge’ chip for health care that goes under the skin. It is about the size of a grain of rice and can hold your health care records. Interestingly, it is not only the usual objections of surveillance and privacy that the paper writes about, but also the fundamentalist Christian worry that it could be the “mark fo the beast” warned about in the Book of Revelation.
Labels: fundamentalism, identity chips, mark of the beast, New York Times, privacy advocates, rfid