Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush's first term and former Governor of Wisconsin is having an RFID tag the size of a grain of rice implanted under his skin.
Thompson is, a director of the company Applied Digital which owns Verichip who makes the subcutaneous RFID chips for humans and pets.
the chips will contain personal information that will help medical professionals and others provide emergency treatment. The chip provides a form of identification that's tough to lose. By clicking the number found on the chip into a password-restricted database, paramedics can get an accident victim's medical history in the field.
Posted by Jill Fallon at July 22, 2005 11:49 AM | Permalink