How we'll keep tags on the old folk

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1734263,00.html

I see Big Brother at it again :hmm:

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All this technology is great on paper.

I've read a long time ago about a Spanish system used to control diabetic patients through GPS and cell-phone warnings.

Having a grandmother who one day dissapeared because she suffered from Alzheimer, I certainly wish she had a GPS chip back in the day. It would have made things alot easier, instead of getting my family, and convincing the police, to search all over the city, she could've been instantly located, without any burden on the tax payer money for the police service. Glad we were on a small city at the time.

Anyway, the problem starts where the government comes in. If the network can be easily accessed you got yourself 1984. Besides from figuring how to build a decently secure network, and keeping the government out of it, making sure it's unable to access the data from innocent citizens, we need a way to de-activate, disable, burn or destroy the chip somehow, or even expell or remove it easily and quickly, like a paper ID.

To me the idea should be having an ID tag that you can't loose, but if the thing is permanent and completely impossible to remove/shut off, it's worse than having a loose-able ID card.

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That's the problem our governments are big on control.