Dr Mark Hosey

UK

R&D

The sand grain sized microchip is only one small part of the ID tag. It also requires a battery, an antenna and some means of tuning bringing the size of the tag up to that of a key fob; the battery will have to to be changed and/or charged at regular intervals requiring surgery and there is no guarantee that the full data contents of the tag will ever really be known to the "wearer" which will probably worry many people (it does me) and the individual will probably have no control over who reads the ID tag as you walk through doors with the appropriate kit (an infringement of privacy). Further more there are many people out there whose bodies will reject the implant due to the foreign nature of the enclosure material and finally there are a number of human rights issues. These proposed tags are illconceived and are, in my opinion, another fashionable band wagon which ill advised CEOs in appropriate industries will squander fortunes on in an attempt to provide their companies with all the benefits to them and no "real" benefits to their customers. The guys pushing this technology may pull the wool over the eyes of some CEOs in retail and banking sectors but I believe the general public will eventually tell them where to stick their implant ID tags which would certainly save on the cost of surgery and make it a little easier to change the batteries.