More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands

'British companies are planning to microchip some of their staff in order to boost security and stop them accessing sensitive areas,' reports the Telegraph. 'Biohax, a Swedish company that provides human chip implants, told the Telegraph it was in talks with a number of UK legal and financial firms to implant staff with the devices.'
An anonymous reader quote Zero Hedge:
It is really happening. At one time, the idea that large numbers of people would willingly allow themselves to have microchips implanted into their hands seemed a bit crazy, but now it has become a reality. Thousands of tech enthusiasts all across Europe have already had microchips implanted, and now a Swedish company is working with very large global employers....
For security-obsessed corporations, this sort of technology can appear to have a lot of upside. If all of your employees are chipped, you will always know where they are, and you will always know who has access to sensitive areas or sensitive information. According to a top official from Biohax, the procedure to implant a chip takes 'about two seconds....' Of course once this technology starts to be implemented, there will be some workers that will object. But if it comes down to a choice between getting the implant or losing their jobs, how many workers do you think will choose to become unemployed?
Engadget provides more examples, pointing out that in 2006 an Ohio surveillance firm had two employees in its secure data center implant RFIDs in their triceps, and that just last year 80 employees at Three Square Market in Wisconsin had chips implanted into their hands. Their article also hints that 'no one's thinking about the inevitable DEF CON talk 'Chipped employees: Fun with attack vectors''
Dr. Stewart Southey, the Chief Medical Officer at Biohax International, describes the technology as 'a secure way of ensuring that a person's digital identity is linked to their physical identity,' with a syringe injecting the chip directly between their thumb and forefinger to enable near-field communication. But what do Slashdot's readers think?
Would you let your employer microchip you?

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