The Anatomy of a Medical RFID Implant

I saw this article this morning and instantly knew it would summon the radical revolutionaries in the fight against the RFID body snatchers. Never mind that these dastardly privacy pirates are medical doctors. Forget about the fact they are using a device, and implementing a procedure, that's been approved by the FDA. Afterall, the FDA is in on the conspiracy, too, don't you know!

Was I right? You bet. References to the supposed darkside of all this are laced throughout the whole piece, but if you read it in its entirety -- which so few people actually do these days -- you see how little merit there is to any and all claims that this is the start of the end of civilization as we know it on planet Earth, etc., etc., etc., ad ridiculous.

The world’s first human Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) implant is now being used to monitor more than 2,000 people worldwide, according to VeriChip, the developer and patent-holder of the medical microchip technology... In March of 2005, Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, N.J., became one of the first hospitals to adopt the human-implant RFID technology.