Microsoft's HealthVault, the medical records database, is to be integrated with VeriMed's human-embedded RFID tags, allowing doctors to access the medical records of unconscious patients with a quick scan of the arm.
VeriMed consists of an RFID tag that is embedded in the arm of a hopefully willing participant, and responds with a 16-digital identity code when queried at 134KHz. This code can then be used to identify the person through VeriChip's website, and will soon be able to link to their medical records as stored on Microsoft's HealthVault system.
"VeriMed adds an exciting RFID-based option for HealthVault users trying to keep themselves and their families safe," says Sean Nolan, the chief architect for HealthVault, quoted in RFID Journal. If you're excited about the idea of being electronically indexed then this is probably the technology for you.
What if I'm excited about the idea of not having an RFID chip under my skin, or anywhere in my immediate vicinity for that matter?
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MeDeFe wrote:or anywhere in my immediate vicinity for that matter?
Pretty hard to do unless you empty your house of all consumer goods and never set foot in any kind of store again.
I fry everything I buy in a microwave before bringin it home.
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
5 bucks says your microwave has one of those tags... Also, putting anything metal in a microwave is just bad, so another 5 bucks says you get cancer in under a decade.
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hecter wrote:5 bucks says your microwave has one of those tags... Also, putting anything metal in a microwave is just bad, so another 5 bucks says you get cancer in under a decade.
Then you'll wish you'd had the chip implanted in the first place.
The1exile wrote:you have a portable microwave for this purpose?
I do indeed, I used a friends microwave to fry the chip in my microwave, btw.
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
The1exile wrote:you have a portable microwave for this purpose?
I do indeed, I used a friends microwave to fry the chip in my microwave, btw.
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saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
Give me a break. Some of the stuff you post is worrisome, but not this. These are simply medical tags, that allow the doctor to pull up the information on you that he has already. If you get in a car crash, and you're allergic to X, but you don't have any ID on you at the time (or it was destroyed in the disaster)... the doctor might end up giving you X and killing you. This allows the hospital to see, "oh, this guy's alleric to X, I'll use alternative Y instead." This doesn't allow the government to see "oh, I see Juan's stocking up on canned goods."
It also allows anyone who gets sufficiently close to read your medical information.
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
MeDeFe wrote:It also allows anyone who gets sufficiently close to read your medical information.
Incorrect. All they would have is a 16 digit number. Without access to the actual database, they have nothing.
My Mobil Speedpass is an RFID tag. It allows me to buy gasoline quickly & easy but my Credit Card info isn't on the actual tag, it's just a number for data-lookup.
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MeDeFe wrote:It also allows anyone who gets sufficiently close to read your medical information.
Incorrect. All they would have is a 16 digit number. Without access to the actual database, they have nothing.
And anybody with illegal access to that database would be able to find out that information about you anyway, no matter how far away you are to them. I don't know why people worry about silly things like this...
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MeDeFe wrote:It also allows anyone who gets sufficiently close to read your medical information.
Incorrect. All they would have is a 16 digit number. Without access to the actual database, they have nothing.
And anybody with illegal access to that database would be able to find out that information about you anyway, no matter how far away you are to them. I don't know why people worry about silly things like this...
Exactly.
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MeDeFe wrote:It also allows anyone who gets sufficiently close to read your medical information.
Incorrect. All they would have is a 16 digit number. Without access to the actual database, they have nothing.
And anybody with illegal access to that database would be able to find out that information about you anyway, no matter how far away you are to them. I don't know why people worry about silly things like this...
Speaking of databases and all fun and conspiracy aside, I would be worried about a Microsoft product being used for storing that kind of sensitive information if this weren't happening so far away. It's weird how there are quite a lot of people on these forums complaining about "big government" intruding on individual rights and freedoms, but nothing about big corporations systematically eroding what little privacy and control over our personal data we have left.
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
MeDeFe wrote:Speaking of databases and all fun and conspiracy aside, I would be worried about a Microsoft product being used for storing that kind of sensitive information if this weren't happening so far away. It's weird how there are quite a lot of people on these forums complaining about "big government" intruding on individual rights and freedoms, but nothing about big corporations systematically eroding what little privacy and control over our personal data we have left.
It's absolutely ridiculous the amount of information companies have on everybody. Databanks store every transaction you've ever made, your name, your email, your likes and dislikes (google is notorious for this) and then proceed to sell it to other companies. Not to mention hotmail, how microsoft could simply go through all your emails, even if you delete them. Or MSN, how everything goes from your computer, to their server, and then off to the person you're talking to.
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Dear lord.... Mobile Phones have been shown to cause brain tumors or something... Wi-Fi is more comparable to a regular radio though isn't it? I mean, you're not directly beaming waves through your body?
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