Radio Frequency Identification Chips
The Food and Drug Administration has considered approving radio frequency identification chips or RFID chips that are implanted under the skin that will hold information about the person that the chip is implanted into. Would you like to have all of you personal information about your entire life on a tiny computer chip, the size of a grain of rice, implanted under your skin? The FDA should not approve the implantation of RFID chips in humans. First, the problem with RFID chips will be discussed and second, the possible solutions to RFID chips will be discussed.
The problem with implanting the RFID chips, or the VeriChip, is privacy. Every detail of your life is defined on this chip. According to David Killick of The Press, a newspaper in New Zealand published in May of 2003, details such as your social security number, your drivers license number, and even all of your birth information from your certificate are included on the chip. It also includes all of y our immunizations, all of your doctor appointments and basically anything important to your health and your personal life. It includes all of your monetary account numbers and balances, such as savings accounts, checking accounts, and even credit card accounts. All those accounts that are still in existence, and even those that have been closed.
With as important and personal details as theses on this chips, strong security is needed on the chips. RFID chips do not have enough security installed in them. According to The Washington Post as newspaper out of Washington, D.C., published in October of 2004, hackers can easily breach the security barriers of the safeguard that is already ...
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...in humans. These chips are already being used in animals as tracking devices, used by their owners, to track their whereabouts. But humans should not be tracked everywhere they go, especially with all of their personal information in one area. And even though the cost is not that high, only one hundred and fifty dollars to two hundred dollars per person, many people do not see a need for them. Some people feel they are just another way for the government to control us by keeping track of everywhere we go and everything we do at any time, day or night.
In conclusion, RFID chips pose a major privacy threat to those involved. Stronger safeguards and security systems would be the only way to approve of these chips. The FDA should not approve of RFID chips. Privacy breaching is the main reason that RFID chips should not be implanted into humans.
Safire emphasizes his argument around a comparison of a lost dog with a newly developed chip fixed underneath their skin which would let animal shelter alert owner of their pets. He declares that using a chip to find a lost animal would be a good side of technology, whereas fear of terrorism has placed American in threat of trading our right to be let alone for the fake security.
The article then follows with “even low id error rates can lead to serious medical errors” further illustrating the dangers associated with incorrect ID’s. Following the study conducted at The University of Kansas Hospital (2003) shows trends that barcoding of patient’s wrist bands has reduced all errors associated with incorrect ID’s. This technique seems to be improving the system so fewer errors do occur, why in general is more economically viable.
Although this service sounds quite convenient and has its obvious benefits, there are other issues to be considered. For example, many ethical dilemmas that play from privacy issues. In a world when at one time you could take a walk to remove yourself from the eye of another, we not may be under constant supervision of sorts. Tracking devises are easily placed in many things, cell phones, which are used by nearly all people in today's American society, are the recent and most wide spread target for GPS. Is it ethical to track someone through an everyday devices such as a cell phone, is tracking people ethical in itself? These are the questions that must be resolved before we can celebrate the positives of such technological advancements.
Patient personalized health cards are also long underling technology that might provide patient a freedom of owning his/her PHI. Transferring data from one hospital to another wouldn’t be a challenge with this password protected health cards. Privacy wouldn’t be much of an issue as all the information is stored in the chip of the card that can be retrieve by a healthcare provider or by patient when needed.
Individuals must realize that freedom is something you must take for yourself. Although there may never be a perfect balance between privacy and technology, there are many ways to inform people about the possible dangers of these high-tech gadgets. If we can all work together to promote our rights, there may be laws implemented that support privacy concerns. After all, the people are the government.
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