Re: Getting Chipped

From: Ziana Astralos (ziana@extrotech.net)
Date: Sat Apr 06 2002 - 08:24:34 MST


On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
> Although the company DOES have plans to market it to hold medical data.
> The articles I read on it were rather oddly conflicting over exactly
> what is going on.

Their previous plan was to store the medical information directly in the chip.
But to not have to wait for FDA review, they've changed that a bit-- storing an
identification code in the chip, which when scanned can be cross-referenced
with a database of medical information (or anything else) stored elsewhere. See
more recent article: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51575,00.html

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