{"id":224,"date":"2006-02-14T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T17:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/ohio-company-using-chip-implants-to-track-employees\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T00:12:18","slug":"ohio-company-using-chip-implants-to-track-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/ohio-company-using-chip-implants-to-track-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Company Using Chip Implants to Track Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times is reporting that CityWatcher.com, an Ohio-based public surveillance company, is experimenting with silicon chips implanted in two of its employees for identification and room access purposes.<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police.<\/p>\n<p>Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the controversy over RFID technology, widely seen as one of the next big growth industries.<\/p>\n<p>RFID chips \u2013 inexpensive radio transmitters that give off a unique identifying signal \u2013 have been implanted in pets or attached to goods so they can be tracked in transit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people permanently numbered,\u201d said Liz McIntyre, who campaigns against the use of identification technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the entire article @ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/ec414700-9bf4-11da-8baa-0000779e2340.html\">US group implants electronic tags in workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times is reporting that CityWatcher.com, an Ohio-based public surveillance company, is experimenting with silicon chips implanted in two of its employees for identification and room access purposes. From the article &#8212; CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/ohio-company-using-chip-implants-to-track-employees\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Ohio Company Using Chip Implants to Track Employees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-identity-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6401,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}