Identifying Chips No bigger than a grain of rice and embedded beneath a person’s skin, the computer identifying chips will be the future ID card someday
ID cards are easy to counterfeit while the chips are extremely hard to remove or fake
In addition, the chip has no power supply; rather, it has a millimeter-long magnetic coil that is activated when a scanning device is running across the skin above it
A tiny transmitter on the chip sends out the data
But without the scanning device the chip can’t be read
By limiting the use of scanners can people control what the technology is used for
airports, nuclear plants and other high-security facilities to avoid the problem of negligence on the part of security guards
Other uses include satellite tracking of an individual’s energy movement
