Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june 28, 2004 Canada / world a11 two cocktails put pm on my microchip implant the future of identification by Vito Pilieci a tiny microchip injected under the skin of a few night clubbers in Spain is about to revolutionize the world As we know it. Called the ver Chip the device the size of a Grain of Rice is injected into the upper right Arm of revellers at the Baja Beach club in Barcelona. It allows club goers to pay for drinks with the wave of their hand. Retailers Are poised to use the technology for inventory control making bar codes obsolete. It May also be used to give emergency workers a patient s medical records or prevent guns from firing in the wrong hands. At the nightclub the tiny capsule can be detected by a Reader used by waitresses. It gives the servers Access to the Patron s payment information and processes a transaction. The technology also allows the club s vip members to be differentiated from others and opens doors to special rooms. I thought in this Day where everyone has some form of Tat too silicone piercing or some kind of body augmentation that people might not mind this said Baja Beach club director Conrad Chase. A medical professional injects the tiny Chip under the skin with a tiny Needle. A special bonding agent around the Chip then activates to hold it in place. The ver Chip which has been implanted in cats dogs and millions of other animals for More than a decade now for identification purposes uses something called radio frequency identification raid technology to work. With the ver Chip a doctor could Access All of a patient s medical records allergy information previous surgeries and family doctor information. Credit card companies around the world Are considering the Chip As a Way to counter credit card fraud. Even the manufacturer of Winchester and Browning rifles ? in manufacturing inc. ? is planning to use the ver Chip technology to make smart guns that can Only be fired by their Micro chipped owners. But Many people Are wary of the technology. Brian Olson a resident of Highland ranch Colorado said As a Christian he would never allow a ver Chip to be implanted in his body. Amongst christians this is very serious Issue he said. Key Issue is biblical the Mark of the beast. Scripture clearly says that the Mark would be applied either in the hand or the fore head. The anti Christ would demand this device be implanted for use in Commerce Trade etc., and As a sign of Paul Heino chief executive of Toronto s Sunder information systems inc., a company that specializes in radio frequency identification technologies said some people Are even Wor ried about being tracked by satellites in space. This technology does t work that Way Heino said. You actually have to be quite close to the person with the Reader in order for it to ? can West news service ;