Chips for everyone

In the very near future, it's not unlikely that
all people will be required to have a micro
identity chip installed beneath the skin, maybe
in the neck or shoulder. Everyone, everywhere.
This chip will be embedded in babies as soon
as they are born, won't be visible but will
store and update pertinent information about
a person.

Government agencies will be able to scan chip
data from near or far, from a moving vehicle
or maybe even from long distances via satellites.
Each chip will be store details about a person
including nationality, ethnicity, age, height,
weight, address,employment, marital status,
education, skills,movement,health and anything
else that might be handy in maintaining a total
information package about anyone and everyone.

Only authorized pesonal using authorized devices
will be able to read the data on the chip. Data
would be shared by such agencies as police or
immigration or national security or census or health
or taxation or all agencies, always.

Today, i.d. chips are already used as markers
but mostly in pets. Many dogs and cats have chips
imbedded in them so they can be recovered if lost
or stolen. Some people actually have voluntarily
had i.d. chips placed under their skin. Some groups
advocate widespread use of i.d. chips for children or
old people. Possibly a government will expand on that
and eventually insist that i.d. chips will protect
citizens under the all purpose excuse of 'national
security', making intallation mandatory. No chip,
no records, no history, no identity. Cause for alarm.

'Are you allowed to be on this side of the street?
Your i.d. chip says you don't have proper authorization.
And another thing, your chip doesn't show proof of
'open reading' so you aren't authorized to read this
type of blog. For you, this is the end.'