Cyborgs at Work: Employees Get Implanted With Microchips

Tagged: 7.1.1 Interaction and cognition, 7.3.1 Benefits and harm, 7.3.1A Law and ethics, 7.3.1G Privacy, 7.3.1J Data collection, 7.4.1 Real-world contexts

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- April 11, 2017 at 2:36 am #2902
  
  Nnamdi Onwumere
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  CBS News/AP, 4/3/2017
  
  Epicenter, a Swedish startup, is implanting microchips into their employees as replacements for swipe cards. Using Near Field Communication (NFC), the microchips provide identifying data to devices such as printers and doors, providing more convenience to employees. This technology has never before used for such a broad group of people; demonstrating that it can be beneficial in the workplace suggests that it may quickly become more widely used, despite security and privacy risks.
  
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