LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Employees get microchip implants
Company requires controversial device for certain workers

Posted: February 10, 2006

1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c) 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A Cincinnati company is requiring any employee who works in its 
secure data center to be implanted with a microchip.

The video surveillance company CityWatcher.com injected two of its
employees in the triceps area of the arm with the VeriChip, a glass-
encapsulated RFID, or radio-frequency identification, tag, according
to Liz McIntyre, co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and
Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID."

CityWatcher.com's Network Administrator Khary Williams spoke with
McIntyre by phone Wednesday after the company announced it had
integrated the VeriChip VeriGuard product into its access control
system.

The tag can be read through clothing from a few inches away.

The highly controversial device is being marketed as a way to access
secure areas, link to medical records and make purchases like a credit
card. 

[...]

CityWatcher's Williams said a local doctor already has implanted two
of the company's employees with the VeriChip devices.

"I will eventually" receive an implant, too, he added.

Meanwhile, Williams accesses the data center with a VeriChip implant
housed in a heart-shaped plastic casing that hangs from his key chain.

He told McIntyre he had no reservations about having the procedure and
would do it as soon as time permits.

But McIntyre says she's worried that CityWatchers u a government
contractor specializing in surveillance projects u would be the first
publicly to incorporate the technology in the workplace.

CityWatcher provides video surveillance, monitoring and video storage
for government and businesses, with cameras set up on public streets
throughout Cincinnati.

The company hopes the VeriChip will bolster its proximity or "prox"
card security system that controls access to the room where the video
footage is stored, said Gary Retherford of Six Sigma Security, Inc.,
the company that provided the VeriChip technology.

"The prox card is a system that can be compromised," said Retherford,
referring to the card's well-known vulnerability to hackers.

He explained that chipping employees "was a move to increase the layer
of security." 

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