Pros And Cons Of Rfid Implants

If I were to agree to implant chips into people they would be good reasons to do it.One of my main reasons would be to have society move faster when it comes to shopping.Who likes to wait in the line for a while?none so that would give them a reason to have a chip inserted into their hand.It will be a quick scan and there your set when it comes to paying.A chip can have you set within less than five minutes in line.

The technology company, Three Square, has begun implanting RFID chips, or radio-frequency transponder systems between employee’s thumb and index finger. Although micro chipping has been done before, the purpose is completely new, to America at least. The other company that has tried this before is the Swedish company BioHax International. Employees are now able to clock into work and pay for their meals digitally, with the swipe of their hand. "We foresee the use of RFID technology to drive everything from making purchases in our office break room market, opening doors, use of copy machines, logging into our office computers, unlocking phones, sharing business cards, storing medical/health information, and used as payment at other RFID terminals,"

RFID chipped licenses is the simplest ways to use biometric technology for increased security. Information that is contained on the chip can be as simple as a set of numbers or complex and contain the person’s name, address, photograph, fingerprints, and iris scan. RFID chips are passive, meaning they do not have a power source within them, they must be scanned in order to read them. In an article written for an online technology magazine, Kim Zetter explains that in most cases, the chips must be within one foot of the scanner to work, but some can be scanned from further than 10 feet away (Zetter). Additionally, the cards are issued with a protective sleeve that keeps the chip protected while it sits in your wallet or purse. Also, a RFID scanner cannot read the chip while it is in the protective case, which helps keep the personal information safe. The chips that would be used in for this program would ones that must be placed in the scanner to work, this adds a piece of security. When the cards are issued out, DMV employees would have out informational handouts regarding the capabilities, use, storing, and contact numbers for troubleshooting problems that may arise with the chip.

As we can see now RFID technology is becoming very popular around the world. However, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID tags pose a risk to personal privacy. RFID tags easily to be stolen by hackers. They could steal your personal information such as your credit card or your passports. For example, now in some states of the U.S, the government allows the citizen to use RFID passports. However, many citizen still disagree to apply RFID passports because they think it contains many issued such as it is vulnerable to wireless attack by hackers (it can be read up to 30 feet away and copying without permission from the RFID owner). In addition, it is even more dangerous when the RFID passports can contain information that is corresponding to the photo of the RFID tags owner. So just think what will happen if someone hack your passports and what they can do with its information from that RFID passport? Therefore, even RFID tags is becoming popular and can be the next generation technology in the real world, but now, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID still contains many problem that can harm to personal privacy.

Scott McNealy, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems quoted a controversial statement that “If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.” Benefits of implanting locator chips in children are

“An implanted Wearable Gadget Isn’t as Crazy as You’d Think” exists as an article written by Margaret Rhodes, and it dwells on a new technology that we could be wearing in the future similar to a tattoo but under our skin. In fact, New Deal Design calls the name of this new technology UnderSkin. Rhodes’ outlook on this technology stands that of an information type of article for its readers. Thus, what does Rhodes’ say about this new technology and where it is headed?

Graafstra has designed bio-safe magnets and recently made a microchip that gets implanted into your hand which he experiments all his creations on himself. The microchip he’s created called the RFID, holds encrypted propaganda, and they also have ID numbers that can be used to unlock a person’s smartphone, which from watching the news or looking at social media you’ll know this would be useful for unlocking terrorists’ phones since we’ve had trouble with that recently and in the past. At the convention it was said that a lot of people actually lined up to be “chipped” as they called it, while others just stared and wondered why they would want to do this. If you were like Sasha Rose, who was at the convention at her meditation booth, it was reported she said “She shook her head: This was the craziest thing she had seen. She wondered about Graafstra's credentials. She thought this was a medical procedure, so

Disclaimer which states that the company cannot be held accountable for any problem which arises from the use of the RFID. The Alzheimer patients  should have had a victim’s advocate to look after their interests. The quality of life was diminished for these people when the chips caused cancer.

Some may argue that getting a microchip implanted to your body is a good idea. However, many argue the the consistent amount of personal data stored in the device can cause a major problem in our social security. For example, if this so called microchip can hold you keys and your information( Address, phone password, you identity….) and use it against you for whatever reason. Recent research has proven that this microchip can even make you sick. The technology used to find your dog and/or cat is now among the humans.

In combination with the surgery, the implant represents a permanent intrusion of our privacy. With an implanted microchip, your brain is hotwired into a computer that has a GPS tracking systems to monitor your movements, every minute of every day, for the rest of your life. Just imagine how creepy that really sounds. The concept of privacy for anyone implanted would never exist again.

For this policy paper I have chosen Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID is able to provide a lot of advantages in the supply chain management, health care system, government operations. RIFD uses electronic magnetic fields for automatically identifying and tracking the tags attached with the objects. The tags contain electronic information. The RFID devices consist of an antenna which emits a radio signals for activating a tag and read and write the electronic data to those. The technology is able to provide a lot of advantages to the users but there are several ethical considerations associated with the use of this technology. Mostly the ethical issues are associated

new advancements such as microchip implant for humans and animals can be very controversial. At first, the implants may seem to have benefits but in the long run they will actually cause more trouble than they are worth. These potential "troublemakers" are about the size of an elongated grain of rice and are injected in the skin under the arm or hand (Feder, Zeller 15). The chip is not powered by battery and there is nothing that can possibly leak out into the body (Posada-Swafford 8). An early form of this technology was used to monitor salmon and has been used for other wildlife research (Verhovek 5). The idea of the chips was started from the September 11 tragedy

Just as all other technologies have such difficulties, RFID technology has obstacles to overcome. Two main concerns are discussed in this paper: radio wave technology hindrances such as collisions, and the ethical concerns that entangle this controversial yet extremely helpful technology.

The VeriChip that is implanted into the body is considered to be a passive RFID tag because it doesn’t use or contain batteries and due to that the VeriChip remains inactive until a proprietary scanner activates it. Passive RFID tags, like the VeriChip, boast a number of unique, significant features. Passive RFID tags have longer lifetimes than active RFID tags (with onboard batteries) and the, the estimated lifetime of a VeriChip is over 20 years. The passive RFID tags can only broadcast low-frequency radio waves because of their minimal power. In the VeriChip’s case, it broadcasts on the low-frequency (LF) band between 125 and 134.2 KHz (Fox, 2004). Given the VeriChip’s low power, the tag

Some of the disadvantages of the RFID technology are that it is expensive to install. Small and medium scale enterprises find it costly to use it in their firms and offices. In the case of Harley Davidson, getting products from many different suppliers’ would mean that the tags may have to be installed in liquid and metal products. The problem is that the liquid and metal surfaces tend to reflect the radio waves, which makes the tags unreadable. The tags have to be placed in various alignments and angles for taking proper reading. This is a tedious task when the work involves a large organization like Harley Davidson. Another disadvantage of the technology is that interference has been observed if devices such as forklifts and walkie-talkies are in the vicinity of the distribution centers. The presence of mobile phone towers has been found to interfere with RFID radio waves. Wal-Mart, the retail sector giant, has installed billions of RFID tags in their products throughout the world and they have encountered such problems.