Free Microchip Implants, the New Employee Perk?

The company in Wisconsin will embed the microchip under the employee's skin in the first company in the US

Three Squared Market (32M), a lounge kiosk company, proposes to provide employees with subcutaneous RFID tags and particle size particles can hold information such as credit card numbers and passwords. With their "handy" chips, you can unlock the door, log in to the computer, and of course you can buy snacks from the vending machine.

The company emphasizes that the tip is completely arbitrary and will be injected under the skin between the thumb and forefinger. This process is quick and easy and requires only a needle. Once security is achieved, just waving your hands close to the chip reader, like a key fob or a credit card chip scanner, will let it function. They expect to have about 50 people to participate

"By using RFID, we can purchase in the office lounge, use the copier, log in to the office computer, unlock the phone, share business cards, save medical / health information, etc. We can think of everything we can do, including using it as an RFID terminal.In the end this technology will be standardized and it will be available for use as passport, public transport, all purchase opportunities etc. 32 M CEO Todd Westby says in a statement.

In connection with this program, the company plans to cover a fee of approximately $ 300, completed in collaboration with Swedish biohacking company Biohax. According to Daily Telegraph, Biohax also does similar work for employees of Epicenter, the Swedish startup center, where even employees may have parties for newly launched respondents. did. On August 1, 32M plans to have its own party to reduce employees.

These chips do not track employee behavior or collect other personal information. It depends on short distance wireless communication (NFC) technology. However, this does not prevent hackers from stealing information using our chip credit card. The company also sells wallets, wallets and other accessories specially designed to block the transmission of information. But at least for the time being, this concern may be exaggerated. Since few people have even RFID tags or contactless credit cards, most hackers have no time to steal them. Even if they tried it, they had to get in touch with doing this.

They make life easier on 32 M walls, but these chips are of little use elsewhere in the world. Most Bufffeed authors discovered this when they tried to cash without credit cards and credit cards for a month, so most sites will not use this technology to support chip payment fees. He finally succeeded in buying a meal with his chips, but it only comes after some custom coding and patience

However, embedding microchips in employees is the first time for the US, but Epicenter, a Swedish technology company, reimplanted 150 workers in 2015. information. He tested it with a copy machine and found that it was not seamless like advertising. It was necessary to distort the hand to make the copy machine function. When talking to the company's senior management, he also saved business card information on his chip, said he can access the information by swiping the smartphone.

In 2018, a Danish company called BiChip released a new generation of microchip implants. The company also released an update for the microchip implants. That is, ripple is one of the virtual currencies currently available for paying for items using only the implanted microchip. In February 2006, CityWatcher of Cincinnati, Ohio became the world's first company to port microchips to employees as part of building access control and security systems. As reported in the United States today, workers need implants to enter the company's security videotapes. The project is Six Sigma Security, Inc. Berichip initially launched implants as a way to restrict access to safety functions such as power stations.