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Re:Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies by markestefanos on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:14PM (#14028127)
I can't think of any benefits here that a ring/bracelet wouldn't provide, plus the added benefit of removability without surgery.
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Re:Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies by eternalban on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:17PM (#14028457)
Conditioning.

[& p.s. since HN doesn't like single word replies]

They are normalizing mechanisms of maximal control. Just like the perp walk of innocents in airports. Chipping is what we do to cattle. And of course, a simple hospital style bracelet would afford a substantially larger surface area for embedding of technology.

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Re:Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies by s73ver on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:13PM (#14028422)
Getting all kinds of press in the tech world.
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