{"id":4433,"date":"2017-07-26T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2017-07-26T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:33:49","slug":"us-based-company-implant-chip-employees-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/07\/26\/us-based-company-implant-chip-employees-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"US-based company to implant chip in employees\u2019 bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based tech company Three Square Market (32M) is offering its employees the option of implanting an RFID chip in their body which would serve multiple purposes.<!--more-->The chip, which is the size of a rice grain, will be implanted between the thumb and forefinger underneath the skin within seconds, allowing the employees to open doors, login to computers, use the copy machine and more.<\/p>\n<p>The chip implant uses \u201cNear-Field Communication\u201d (NFC) &#8212; the technology which is used in contact-less credit cards and mobile payments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe foresee the use of RFID technology to drive everything from making purchases in our office-breakroom market, opening doors, use of copy machines, logging into our office computers, unlocking phones, sharing business cards, storing medical\/health information, and used to make payments at other RFID terminals,\u201d said Todd Westby, CEO, 32M, in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, this technology will become standardised allowing you to use this as your passport, public transit, all purchasing opportunities etc,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>32M is partnering with Sweden-based company BioHax International for the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The employees will be chipped at the 32M inaugural \u201cchip party\u201d hosted at the company\u2019s headquarters on August 1 and the company is expecting over 50 staff members to be voluntarily chipped.<\/p>\n<p>The employees who are interested in the technology but not the implant have the option to place the micro-chip in an RFID wrist-band or a \u201csmart ring\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture courtesy: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based tech company Three Square Market (32M) is offering its employees the option of implanting an RFID chip in their body which would serve multiple purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}