Every missing person will always be found, every crime will always be solved, and identity theft/Impersonation will become a thing of the past.
Good luck having freedom in that world
The government probably wouldn’t have enough money to hire people to watch our chip movements 24/7. It would probably just be a tool to use as evidence in the case of a missing person, or for verifying alibis when crimes are reported. I could be wrong. You think someone would spend their 9AM-5PM watching your gps dot move on a map? Think there’s a man, or woman, to take the next shift and watch it stay in one spot, while you sleep? That would be tough to believe, unless you’re someone really important to the government; like the president.
Who needs to constantly watch what you’re doing when the data can simply be collected and then used against you at a later time without your consent?
Also, what happens when laws change and suddenly your daily habits seem suspect? When it’s possible to figure out what people were together at a certain time and place, the government has unrivaled power and we’ve seen how that plays out multiple times. See: literally any Edward Snowden interview.
If you are genuinely arguing that you would be undisturbed by the future you put forward, I am uninterested in your opinion on anything regarding privacy or freedom.
They can already track all of that through your phone.
I just want an internal chip that monitors location AND vitals (heart rate, BP, Specific Oxygen…), so that EMS can be alerted the moment that a person is in severe distress.
Except that I’m running GrapheneOS and I can turn off my phone/put it in a faraday cage if I need to. I highly doubt either of those are going to be possible with always-on implants.
I used to put my phone in a faraday bag until I realized that it blocks location services from being used, which is apparently illegal where I live.
How the fuck is it illegal where you live?!?
With the power of recording, AI and algorithms, mass surveillance is possible without having half of the population working for the government
Na, power is still an issue. It takes far more power to transmit a location than it does for a device to receive and store a location.
It may be able to piece together events afterwards but not be able to do stuff in real time.How is this a shower thought, this is just a weirdly specific prediction
I was thinking of how some employers have chipped their employees with RFID in the past, and it just made me consider the future of chipping.
Just gonna leave this here: Black Mirror - Arkangel
People are downvoting me on this one, but everyone has a phone that already tracks their GPS coordinates every second of the day (it’s used by your fitness tracker apps, for steps). You probably have your phone in you pocket, or your hand, all day, while it tracks your every step and location. Now, just imagine that tracker is in your body, just after birth. Not a whole phone, but just a small chip.
No benefits, the phone is my communication and entertainment device, the tracking is a side effect, or vice versa if you ask the government.
I would be ripping that out quicker than Fry
Run free software (no google)
Double-plus Good! Everyone will benefit from an increased reduction of ungood thought crimes.
OP is being arrested because the AI profiler has calculated an 89.8% chance of multiple future misdemeanors.
I didn’t say anything about tracking thoughts; just location of a person.
OK, it’s not yet possible anyway.
BTW, a speeding ticket was mailed to your house because you were tracked exceeding the limit for the road you were on. You were also tracked as passing through an area known for frequent drug crimes, so now you’re on a watch-list as a high-probability illegal drug exchange suspect. Your insurance has been notified that you’ve been tracked engaging in risky activities, so your insurance premiums have increased. Based on your extrapolated sexual activity from collated data of yours and other’s data, that’s also increased your premiums; and since that’s flagged as “risky behavior,” the police database has been updated to increase your “potential suspect” rating, which will be used if you’re ever in the vicinity of a crime when it was committed.
As icing on the cake, all of your location tracking data is being sold to data brokers, for commercial interests to use in whatever way they see fit. It’s how the government funds all of these extra benefits you’re being provided!
I hate this, but I speculate you are correct. Have a pinched-nose upvote.
This would be a dystopia almost by definition unless every single government is replaced in the interim.
You think so? I don’t know. I imagine a future where every child that is lost, or abducted is found within minutes due to tracking devices, like lo-jack for cars. I think it would be great. I know there are risks, but imagine a world that is safer for children.
If i had a dime for every time someone told me to think of the children. This has more potential to harm children than make them safer imo.
I just think it’s a very idealistic and unrealistic view of the likely outcomes. To use an extreme example: imagine applying the situation to a North Korea or Russia. Or the U.S., certainly. My point is that it would be the ultimate tool for stifling opposition and consolidating power, among many other things.
True. I fear other countries chipping all of us, in our sleep one day: Citizens, politicians, military personnel, and whatnot. They could have a realtime map that charts everyone’s locations. That would be awful in the event of a war. 😟
I wish the chips in pets worked like lo-jacks. You have to use a bulky collar tag if you want to track their whereabouts.
If that was the case, hella people would be removing the chip so there would still be issues of identity, missing people, and such. I could kill a dude and swap our chips and now the system thinks I am him and that he is me and is dead.
There’s no reason to chip anyone when almost everyone already carries a tracking and listening device in their pocket, and facial recognition cameras can pick up your location in real time and even report on what mood you’re in.
At least you have the option to ditch your phone to live in the woods like big foot, but a chip would require a way to cut it out of yourself like surgery.
Black Mirror S04E02 - Arkangel
So I can just kill someone and steal their chip and commit perfect ID theft?
Not if it contains tech for monitoring a person’s vitals, like an Apple Watch. As soon as their vitals are critical, EMS would be dispatched to their coordinates, and police could see what other chips are near the victim.
The people in power can finally kill and maim anyone who could ever oppose them more efficiently! Great! /s
I’m waiting for the mind control. Before long you will simply be incapable of worry or thinking wrong thoughts.
I just want a microchip in my children that tracks their location and vitals, with immediate reports to EMS if their vitals are at critical levels. That’s all.
So many people have downvoted my post, but none of them are shunning their fancy smartphones; all of which are equipped with location services that enables the phone to be tracked by GPS, to their exact coordinates.
What a terrible shower though, they must think, as they scroll my post with their smartphone, and it tracks their exact location.
