http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-military-wants-to-microchip-troops-2012-5
By: Robert Johnson
Date: 2012-05-06
DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring troops health on the battlefield.
Kate Knibbs at Mobiledia reports the sensors are targeted at preventing illness and disease, the two causes of most troops medical evacuations.
What seems like a simple way of cutting costs and increasing efficiency has some people concerned that this is the first step in a "computer chips for all" scenario.
Bob Unruh at WND reports one of those opponents, Katherine Albrecht, co-author of Spychips says “It’s never going to happen that the government at gunpoint says, ‘You’re going to have a tracking chip. It’s always in incremental steps. If you can put a microchip in someone that doesn’t track them … everybody looks and says, ‘Come on, it’ll be interesting seeing where we go.'”
From WND:
DARPA is calling the effort "a truly disruptive innovation," that could help the U.S. fight healthier and more efficiently than its adversaries.
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By: Robert Johnson
Date: 2012-05-06
DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring troops health on the battlefield.
Kate Knibbs at Mobiledia reports the sensors are targeted at preventing illness and disease, the two causes of most troops medical evacuations.
What seems like a simple way of cutting costs and increasing efficiency has some people concerned that this is the first step in a "computer chips for all" scenario.
Bob Unruh at WND reports one of those opponents, Katherine Albrecht, co-author of Spychips says “It’s never going to happen that the government at gunpoint says, ‘You’re going to have a tracking chip. It’s always in incremental steps. If you can put a microchip in someone that doesn’t track them … everybody looks and says, ‘Come on, it’ll be interesting seeing where we go.'”
From WND:
She said it was expected that captive
audiences, such as prisoners and troops, would be the first subjected
to the requirement, which would make it easier for the general populace
to accept it as well. “It’s interesting,” she said. “I’m stunned how
this younger generation is OK. They don’t see the problem. … ‘Why
wouldn’t everyone want to be tracked?’”
But she said Americans will have to
decide to say no to incremental advances, or by the time officials
finally roll out the idea of chips for all, whether they want them or
not, it will be too late to decide. “The analogy that I draw is [that of
a train], and if I’m in California and I do not want to wind up in New
City, every stop brings me closer,” she said. “At some point I have to
get off the train.”
DARPA is calling the effort "a truly disruptive innovation," that could help the U.S. fight healthier and more efficiently than its adversaries.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
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