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From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Techno Terror
Message-ID: <55890@sneaky.lonestar.org>
Date: 6 May 91 20:19:16 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.020847.12423@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <Nsw017w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Organization: Gordon Burditt
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>Do you mean that you are against implanting computers into the human body in
>general, or that you are against the specific example of planting chips in
>people in order to track them?

>I expect a lot of people reading this find the idea disturbing. Well, my
>point is that you are over-generalizing to say that nobody will allow such
>things to happen.

>If you're against implanted *tracking* chips, then the objection is surely a
>'civil liberties' one and not a technology-based objection.

There already are external tracking devices in popular use.  People
carry them around voluntarily.  They provide a perceived benefit to the
people who carry them unrelated to tracking, and many probably don't
realize the tracking capability is there.  These people even *PAY MONEY*
for the tracking devices.  The actual amount of tracking being done is
unknown.  

					Gordon L. Burditt
					sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon


P.S. Cellular phones may not be very *GOOD* tracking devices, but they
can be located within a few miles.