On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:05:25 PDT, William Chops Westfield wrote:

>This week's EETimes has an article on a small active tag you can WEAR
>that permits your location within a building/campus to be tracked in 3d.
>It's a sort of short-range GPS...
>
>BillW
>

Exactly!  Why plant this chip under the skin when it could just as easily
be *worn*.  Call me paranoid, but the idea of some government forcefully
implanting such devices in its citizens also comes to mind, and does *not*
make me feel comfortable about this.  Anonymity, to me, is more dear than
doors that automatically open for me, even if I forget my tag at home in
the morning and have to stop by the security office for a "loaner".

Now, if you were implanting chips that would help a parapalegic walk you
would get my attention....


Dan