Tread carefully, this may get people pissed (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach
This weekend I received Snow's newsletter in the mail, which is a good thing: it keeps me in touch with the goings-on in the company, while I'm away at college. Most of the time the articles are a bit boring or they're just important stuff everyone needs to know. It's not often that an article has me outraged, but this time they managed to do it.
The following was translated from Dutch:
Starting from April, Snow will be the first company in our country to employ high-tech scanners for access control to the building and our workstations. These scanners work with RFID tags. To test the access control modules and to search for any bugs in the system, we would like to implant Verichip tags at the next company get-together. This is on a strictly voluntary basis.
To sum things up, there's a few guys at Snow who're completely in love with RFID and the applications thereof. In our new building, they would like to set up access control to doors and workstations, using RFID scanners. These scanners would use tags that are implanted in our colleagues' forearms (the small device you see on the left, or as I've come to call it the glass maggot).
Now, I've been assured by my field manager that all of this is still up in the air, since the ondernemingsraad (some council meant to approve of management decisions involving the whole company) still hasn't agreed with this. But even if it were to come to this, I'd still refuse to have that maggot under my skin. Let me them provide me with a keychaintag, dongle or badge for all I care, but they sure as hell aren't sticking anything in my body.
If this were the European .gov asking its citizens to switch to RFID passports, which would include their social security and their health insurance, then MAYBE I'd consider it. Because in that case it's something I'd be using for over ten years at a time. But even then I'd still have my doubts, especially due to the security issues involved with RFID.
But in this case, it's just an employer trying to be hip with new tech. Lord knows what they'll be doing with the info gained through the RFID chips movement through the building. Besides, I'm bound to leave them in one to two years, so why the hell would I get an implant that will not see ANY use after that time? Would that mean that future employers would have to add their own implants to my arm? That'd be nice, a whole family of maggots under my skin D:
NO WAI!
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