[privacy] UK: Prisoners 'To Be Chipped Like Dogs'

[Rob Thompson]

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Paul Ferguson wrote:
| Via The Independent.
|
| [snip]
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| Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the
| skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic
| tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails.

So I guess that they didn't consider the fact that the animals that have
those chips for tracking installed are starting to, in huge numbers,
develop cancer cells around the chip area???

Not only is this a gross violation, something to make that titanium
spork at thinkgeek.com sound like a good investment, but it is a major
health risk.

<snip>

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Rob

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