Should we be Chipped like Cats/Dogs?

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I was thinking, if my dog went missing I could go to the Chip place and bang GPS there he is.

So why dont we all have Chips inset into us?

1 - Lost people wouldnt be lost in most cases... bar having a Psycho carve you up to get the Chip out.
2 - Crimes, the chip will have the location of said person at all times... so like OJ Simpson, things like that.

It would be cheap and an easy way to manage population, reduce crime and help stop fraud etc as your ID is your chip.
 
It'll happen eventually, but more for our ID and things inside our palm, to authorise payments etc. but for the police to use them for tracking the EU Courts would go ape ****.

They go yellow now? o.O
 
nick.lidgett said:
No but i do think everybody should have their dna taken and stored in a government database to help solve crimes.
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That's already done... You're joking right?

e; To expand on what I said, it's already done however the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 made some amendments, if you wish to read up on it read up on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 however it's still yet to be updated with new amendments.
 
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Personally don't have a problem with this... I have nothing to hide as long as its just the law that can access it with a court warrant or something? Stops the crazy women tracking you like they can with find my iphone ha.

Unless in missing the point i don't see why people are just saying no without explanation.
 
I think these quotes show my position on the topic:

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow
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YarwoodUK said:
I think he meant so everybodys DNA is on record :p
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Well that's just stupid. I wouldn't trust the police to keep safe a can of beans, it could easily be abused and also hacked. I don't want my DNA being on an SQL dump. But as I said, European Courts of Human Rights would make the government rethink that completely; because under the European Convention of Human Rights, Article 8 we have a right to privacy. Doesn't seem that our Human Rights Act covers privacy :(
 
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You can electively do this with smartphones already. Heck, the cultural acceptance of having such a device effectively attached to your person is in full swing. Smart watches? Google glass? We're almost there anyway, it just is coming in another way. I'd go as far to say many would sooner leave the house without keys than their smartphone.

On the face of it, being able to track the mostly inane movements family and friends sounds like an appealing prospect if you're the kind of socialite that enjoys spontaneous interaction. At least, that's what the technology companies sell to us. They're selling us a better, more active social life that wouldn't otherwise be as fulfilling if we had to plan in advance, right?

Whilst there are numerous apparently legitimate advantages of the technology that we will be told are essential, I think we've done ok so far. What about the children you say? 'Wouldn't you want to know where your kids are when they're not home?' What difference will it make? This isn't a silver bullet that can somehow absolve the failings of ones parenting skills. In fact, knowing my parents could track my movements would have crippled my sense of freedom and natural personal exploration that one does in their youth to define who they become.

What worries me is that the seemingly irrefutable benefits of personal tracking will no doubt meet with great appreciation in our culture of data and instant gratification. This worries me because underneath that, the freedom that has made our society so great, and we have fought for so long, is slowly eroded. This is still the start of the journey, I'm scared of the apparent destination. Fortunately, it's not too late to turn back.
 
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