| XXXI. | Human Microchip Implants: Needed to Buy or Sell |
| Posted: March 1, 2004 |
| Steven Keating, executive director of the Denver-based Privacy Foundation reflected on the possibility of the use of chips becoming "commercially coercive."565 Following are instances where the possible use of human microchip implants relates to the concept of buying and selling. |
| A. | Steven Keating, Executive Director of the Privacy Foundation: Future Possibility: Airlines: Miami Herald: March 10, 2002 |
| Steven Keating, executive director of the Denver-based Privacy Foundation considered that, theoretically, airlines could use chips in the future. |
| For example, airlines could encourage demand for chips by allowing people with implants to get faster security clearance. "It can become commercially coercive," Keating said.566 |
| B. | ADS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sullivan, and Dr. Peter Zhou, Chief Scientist for Development of The Implant and President of Digitalangel.Net, Inc., A Subsidiary of ADS: Human Chip Implants May Be Used in The Future for Buying and Selling: WorldNetDaily.com: March 20, 2000. |
| ADS [Applied Digital Solutions] Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sullivan, and Dr. Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development of the implant and president of DigitalAngel.net, Inc., a subsidiary of ADS, consider the possibility of human chip implants being used for buying and selling. |
| Applied Digital Solutions, an e-business to business solutions provider, acquired the patent rights to the miniature digital transceiver it has named "Digital Angel®." The company plans to market the device for a number of uses, including as a "tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-business security"... |
| "We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless," said ADS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sullivan. "Although we're in the early developmental phase, we expect to come forward with applications in many different areas, from medical monitoring to law enforcement. However, in keeping with our core strengths in the e-business to business arena, we plan to focus our initial development efforts on the growing field of e-commerce security and user ID verification." |
| Dr. Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development of the implant and president of DigitalAngel.net, Inc, a subsidiary of ADS, told WorldNetDaily the device will send a signal from the person wearing Digital Angel® to either his computer or the e-merchant with whom he is doing business in order to verify his identity. |
| In the future, said Zhou, computers may be programmed not to operate without such user identification. As previously reported in WND, user verification devices requiring a live fingerprint scan are already being sold by computer manufacturers. Digital Angel¨ takes such biometric technology a giant step further by physically joining human and machine.567 |
| C. | "Protected by VeriChipTM": "Financial Arena": Business Wire: June 6, 2002 |
| A Business Wire release reported that Applied Digital Solutions outlined financial sector applications for VeriChip, "a miniaturized radio frequency identification device (RFID) ...[a]bout the size of a grain of rice," that "...contains a unique verification number and will be available in several formats, some of which will be insertable under the skin." |
| Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSXE), an advanced technology development company, today announced that it is preparing to launch a "Protected by VeriChip(TM)" product awareness campaign to demonstrate the potential for VeriChip(TM) as a personal safeguard technology that includes applications in the defense, security and financial sectors... |
| In the financial arena, the company sees enormous, untapped potential for VeriChip as a personal verification technology that could help to prevent fraudulent access to banking (especially via ATMs) and credit card accounts. VeriChip's tamper-proof, personal verification technology would provide banking and credit card customers with the added protection of knowing their accounts could not be accessed unless they themselves initiated -- and were physically present during -- the transaction.568 |