Chip in skin storing your wealth

conditioned games · 06-06-2017 5:34pm #1

I was talking to a guy recently and he was saying in future people on this planet will have a chip implanted in their skin containing their life's wealth and where they are located. Would this be a good idea? I guess with the terror attacks it would help to identify people that want to do bad things and it would also be easier to spend money rather than having to use cards, changing foreign currency etc.. I'm unsure, so I have decided to ask what do the good people of boards.ie say, would this be a good idea?

biko · 06-06-2017 5:35pm

Maybe I haven't thought this through but chipping people seems like a bad idea.

PandaPoo · 06-06-2017 5:37pm

Can you stab someone and swap chips with them?

theteal · 06-06-2017 5:37pm

Wasn't this some crap Justin Timberlake film????

pjohnson · 06-06-2017 5:37pm

Somewhere Russian hackers start their plans.

nullzero · 06-06-2017 5:37pm

Haven't subdermal RFID chips been around a while now?

GritBiscuit · 06-06-2017 5:39pm

So instead of some delightful character demanding I hand my wallet over, they'll need to hold me down and cut it out of me? Uuuuhhhmmm.... I'm gonna go with; no thanks.

Noveight · 06-06-2017 5:39pm

Salt and just a small bit of vinegar, please.

gifted · 06-06-2017 5:39pm

Was he smoking a dooby?

Atlantic Dawn · 06-06-2017 5:39pm

You would need one global currency which would never work.

conditioned games · 06-06-2017 5:40pm

PandaPoo wrote: »

Can you stab someone and swap chips with them?

As far as I am aware the technology only works for that specific person

ScumLord · 06-06-2017 5:41pm

The chip likely wouldn't contain anything other than a number reference for a database. Just like your debit card doesn't actually have your money in it, it's just an easy reference and a way to read the number automatically.

I don't think we'll ever have a bank require it's users to get surgical procedure that could end up causing health issues for some people. What happens if you have multiple bank accounts? More chips? What happens if your number becomes known to others, new chip?

conditioned games · 06-06-2017 5:46pm

ScumLord wrote: »

The chip likely wouldn't contain anything other than a number reference for a database. Just like your debit card doesn't actually have your money in it, it's just an easy reference and a way to read the number automatically.

I don't think we'll ever have a bank require it's users to get surgical procedure that could end up causing health issues for some people. What happens if you have multiple bank accounts? More chips? What happens if your number becomes known to others, new chip?

Maybe not one specific bank but a world bank that can facilitate the transfers of funds between individual banks. The chip therefore could hold different bank accounts. With technology that recognises hand or eye design then it could only be used by the owner.

ScumLord · 06-06-2017 5:51pm

I think it's more likely that things like biometrics will become more common and that the computer will basically be able to recognise a person rather than require chips as a form of identity.

It could use facial recognition, fingerprint and retina scanning along with an over all camera watching body language and behaviour to watch the person and make sure they're not pulling a fast one in each test.

Fingerprint scanning is now so cheap it's on mobile phones, facial recognition is commonplace in large organisations like government, and is pretty dependable at the consumer level. Even retina scanning is becoming more common.

jester77 · 06-06-2017 5:54pm

It would be the equivalent of a hardware crypto wallet. Not that far fetched at all.

4068ac1elhodqr · 06-06-2017 5:55pm

Revelation 13:16
16. It puts under compulsion all people—the small and the great, the rich and the poor, the free and the slaves—that these should be marked on their right hand or on their forehead.

PMBC · 06-06-2017 5:57pm

Might be good for storing your medical records.
Rather than for the third time in Hospital ' and your name is ....'?. Elsewhere I read that its to check that you are still functioning properly. Although by the length of wait times, not generally a fault of hospital staff, you could have changed name by deed poll!

fly_agaric · 06-06-2017 6:56pm

conditioned games wrote: »

I was talking to a guy recently and he was saying in future people on this planet will have a chip implanted in their skin containing their life's wealth and where they are located. Would this be a good idea? I guess with the terror attacks it would help to identify people that want to do bad things and it would also be easier to spend money rather than having to use cards, changing foreign currency etc.. I'm unsure, so I have decided to ask what do the good people of boards.ie say, would this be a good idea?

Implanting stuff like that in their body can make people squeamish. I don't see advantage over having information in a chip vs available through a personal device.
The little computers (smartphones) we all carry about would have potential to become that device. As others mention the vital information about the citizen (slave of the surveillance state/minion of the beast/whatever you're having yourself) would probably be stored elsewhere (or distributed across many elsewhere(s)), and the device just accesses it/has a secure key into it somehow when it is required.

bear1 · 06-06-2017 6:58pm

conditioned games wrote: »

I was talking to a guy recently and he was saying in future people on this planet will have a chip implanted in their skin containing their life's wealth and where they are located. Would this be a good idea? I guess with the terror attacks it would help to identify people that want to do bad things and it would also be easier to spend money rather than having to use cards, changing foreign currency etc.. I'm unsure, so I have decided to ask what do the good people of boards.ie say, would this be a good idea?

Is your friend of sane mind?
I mean was he wearing a white unusual looking jacket when he said this?

the14thwarrior · 06-06-2017 7:15pm

would this have the same effect as having a chip on your shoulder?
or would it do away with that effect thus people would, in general, be happier?
what if you wanted both? a chip on your shoulder and one in your chin?

it might get confusing.

jamesbere · 06-06-2017 7:39pm

I think some people might have a chip

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On their shoulder

Jayop · 06-06-2017 7:47pm

Chipping people isn't some wild thought by a madman. It's quite possible to do now using today's technology and there are people who have chosen to have chips implanted for various reasons. Should a payment option become widely available that people can put their hand to the machine rather than having to use their card or lately their phone then I'd imagine quite a few would go for it.

The question of ethics only comes into play if something like this becomes mandatory. At that point it won't be about payment options, but tracking people. I feel though that by they time something like that becomes possible politicallyit's much more likely that facial recognition will be so advanced it will be unnecessary.

Tazio · 06-06-2017 7:53pm

Store it all in the block chain of someone's DNA... imagine at and atm you'd need to spit at it to make a withdrawal...

Wait... it's may not work.

Beyondgone · 06-06-2017 7:55pm

I've heard chips are bad for you. I'm gonna go with that still being true.

The dogs chipped. I consider that to be vaguely a step too far. Chip me corpse, no ones chipping me alive.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 06-06-2017 7:56pm

conditioned games wrote: »

I was talking to a guy recently and he was saying in future people on this planet will have a chip implanted in their skin containing their life's wealth and where they are located. Would this be a good idea? I guess with the terror attacks it would help to identify people that want to do bad things and it would also be easier to spend money rather than having to use cards, changing foreign currency etc.. I'm unsure, so I have decided to ask what do the good people of boards.ie say, would this be a good idea?

Seems a bit pointless: there are already chips that contain the information of a person's wealth, what's the point in putting them insie skin?

Also, how would it help to identify terror attackers any quicker?

Supergurrier · 06-06-2017 8:04pm

What kinda mpg increases can i expect from getting chipped ?

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 06-06-2017 8:06pm

I'm not sure why everyone is being sarcastic, this technology exists and has already been introduced back in 2015. It just hasn't become mainstream or mandatory. Yet:

An office block in Sweden is micro-chipping its employees
Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, is ditching swipe cards and implanting chips in its employees

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/11378908/An-office-block-in-Sweden-is-micro-chipping-its-employees.html

Dirty Dingus McGee · 06-06-2017 8:07pm

Better than that instead of wealth being measured in money on this chip in you skin it gets measure in time and if you want to buy something your life shortens you work more you get more time.

I think this system could work very well.

Elemonator · 06-06-2017 8:12pm

I'm starting to imagine all the potential court cases if such a thing became mandatory, the right to privacy and bodily integrity.........

Jayop · 06-06-2017 8:17pm

Elemonator wrote: »

I'm starting to imagine all the potential court cases if such a thing became mandatory, the right to privacy and bodily integrity.........

I don''t ever see it being mandatory. If it's optional a lot of people will do it. Would be shocking handy not to have to carry a wallet anywhere.

I think though while the mobile phone is still king then this tech won't take off.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 06-06-2017 8:32pm

Elemonator wrote: »

I'm starting to imagine all the potential court cases if such a thing became mandatory, the right to privacy and bodily integrity.........

I hear what you're saying. But imagine if this technology had been available when 9/11 happened, I think there would have been a serious push to make it mandatory as part of sweeping changes to 'protect America from terrorists'. Maybe rope in a few patsy celebrities to popularise the idea, and before you know it the newspapers are reporting lines of people patriotically queuing up to protect freedom by getting chip. There would probably be some incentive promised too, like premium security passes at airports and some sort of tax rebate too. It's as easy as that.

In the event of another 9/11 type event, or worse, I think there could certainly be the possibility of certain segments of society being chipped. Then the slippery slope would begin...