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From: AUGUST@VLSI.JPL.NASA.GOV (Richard B. August)
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Subject: RE: techno terror
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Date: 6 May 91 21:20:23 GMT
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Computers have been implanted in some animals (cows in particular) since
the late '70s.  We developed a system where a temperature measurement
processor was implanted under the cow's skin.  Each processor had a unique
number.  When the cows came in to be milked they walked through a door which
housed a transmitter/receiver set/antenna.  The temperature of the cow was
transmitted to the central (via RF) and the temperature/health/production
of the individual cow was made available to the farmer.

The risk of this type of imbeded computer is that it could be used to monitor
a person's travel/whereabouts.  A definite invasion of one's privacy.

Richard B. August
august@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov