Amanda Backs uses her smartphone to scan a microchip placed in her hand to reveal her Health Pass.
Dystopian nightmare or a simple feature? A Swedish company that implants microchips under the skin is promoting its devices for use as COVID-19 health passes in the country of thousands of early adopters.
Stockholm resident Amanda Back, who has implanted the developed subcutaneous chip, “I think it’s a lot of my own integrity to stick myself and keep my personal data with me, I really think that It’s even more controlling on my end.” By dsraptive subdermal, told AFP.
Although still rare, several thousand Swedes have opted to insert an electronic implant under the skin in recent years, eliminating the need to remember key fobs, business cards, public transport cards and more recently: vaccine passes. Is.
The country that created “Real Humans” and its English-language adaptation of “Humans” is also home to so-called biohackers who are convinced that humans will be forever engulfed by technology in the future.
“I have a chip implant in my hand and I programmed the chip so that I have my COVID passport on the chip and the reason I always want to access it and when I read my chip, I swipe my phone chip and then I unlock and it opens,” said Hans Sjoblad, managing director of DSReptive Subdermal, as a PDF appeared on his phone with his vaccine certificate.
With the chip embedded under your skin, you can’t forget to take it with you.
“If you want to buy a more advanced version a chip implant costs a hundred euros, and you can compare that with a health wearable that will probably cost twice as much, but at the same time a chip implant that you can buy for twenty, thirty Can use for , forty years. While a wearable you can only use for three, four years,” he said.
For Sjoblad, the COVID pass is just one example of a potential application, which would be “a thing for the winter of 2021-2022”.
The Swedish entrepreneur said he has a “deep interest in privacy.”
The smartphone or other reader must be held very close to read the data on the chip.
While he acknowledged that many “people view chip implants as a scary technique, as a surveillance technology”, Sjoblad said they should instead be seen as a simple ID tag.
“They don’t have batteries, they can’t transmit signals themselves, so they’re basically asleep, they can never tell your location, they only activate when you touch them with your smartphone, ” They said.
The implant only contains data and cannot be used as a tracking device.
All transplants are voluntary, and if someone makes them mandatory for prisoners or elderly people in retirement homes, “you’ll find me at the barricades,” Sjoblad said.
“Nobody can force anyone to get a chip implant.”
Microchips get under the skin of technophile Sweden
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