DALLAS — The maker of an implantable human identification chip is offering a $50 discount to the first 100,000 people to register for a chip implantation. The $200 chip is the size of a grain of rice and is implanted under the skin of the subject.
The company is marketing the device, which can hold a sizable amount of important personal data, for such uses as: controlling access to buildings and offices (the chip would replace a “smart” card key); financial transactions (the chip would replace an ATM card); identification (the chip would replace the old-fashioned identifaction card).
The chip has alarmed both privacy advocates, who see the potential of controlling populations through forced implantation, and some evangelical Christians, who see eerie parallels between the chip and the biblical “Mark of the Beast” that will ultimately be required of all nonbelievers in a post-Christian dispensation.
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