[OT] "It is 10:00. Do you know where your children are"

[Kamog]

One day they might start implanting chips inside kids so they can always be tracked. At first they'll say it's for finding lost children, but soon the government might try to track and monitor everyone.

[capnq]

One day they might start implanting chips inside kids so they can always be tracked.

It's already being done: Tracker implant {link}

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It is also a trust issue. (narf is that what you were alluding to?).

got it in one.

[dogscoff]

It's already being done: Tracker implant {link}

It's all hype and (fortunately) unfeasible. If you think about it, you'd have to have an object implanted in the girl's arm with the same kind of tranmission capabilities as a mobile phone. Implanted under the skin. People are worried about the health risks of regular phones, what do you think this would be like? What if the battery leaks? How would you recharge it anyway?

Take a look at this:

http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02002-09-06&l=57#l

and this:

http://www.kevinwarwick.org.uk/

IMHO this child-tagging lark was the stunt that tipped Kevin Warwick from harmless publicity-muppet to Orwellian bull****ter bastard.

[Fyron]

There are no health risks with cellular phones. They do not transmit any radiation with enough energy to cause any mutations of DNA at all. It is simply not the right wavelength of EM radiation to be cabaple of doing so. People in general are stupid and worry about everything.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It is simply not the right wavelength of EM radiation to be cabaple of doing so.

as far as we know.

[Fyron]

Which we do know for a fact. EM radiation has to be in the x-ray or smaller range of wavelength, or be operating at many orders of magnitude greater in energy than cell phones operate at, to even have a chance of mutating DNA.