Re: A glance at the future of missing child identification

[tibbs@sina.hpc.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)]

>>>>> "TCM" == Timothy C May <tcmay@got.net> writes:

TCM> At 8:52 PM 8/20/95, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>> These transponders are already used for many year. They inject them in
>> pigs and cows to identify them. And some car manufacturers put the into
>> the ignition keys as theft protections.

TCM> There has so far been no known uses of this on humans, at least as a
TCM> matter of routine. Possibly some developers have tried injecting
TCM> themselves, for the usual reasons.

Believe it or not, something like this is being used (or is being prepared
for use) in breast implants.  An article in the Houston (silicone city)
Chronicle about a month ago (sorry, I can't produce a more exact reference)
stated that new soybean oil breast implants are being manufactured to
accept an identification device to track information on the patient and the
implanting doctor.

It's not exactly big brother (bigger sister?) but it's the first
human-implanted ID device that I've heard of.  I don't know if any have
actually been implanted.
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