FDA Implantable Chip

I was talking to my friends about the RFID chip the other day and they told me about a chip they had implanted in their dog. The chip stores information about the dog so that if he is lost a vet can figure out who he belongs too and return him. They thought this was a good idea, better than the tattoo they have in their cat’s ear.

At the time the concept bothered me because I thought about it’s potential use in humans and what that would mean from a privacy standpoint. I thought it would take a while before the idea caught on for humans but it appears not. The following link is to an article stating that the FDA has approved the concept for humans…

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=534&e=1&u=/ap/20041014/ap_on_hi_te/fda_implantable_chip