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From the "Sign of Impending Doom" Department

posted by:Angela Long // 10:52 PM // June 29, 2006 // General

The president of Applied Digital Solutions, the makers of the implantable RFID device called VeriChip, suggested that the VeriChip be used to track migrant workers and immigrants in the US in a television interview last month. A sign of the impending right wing apocalypse, perhaps, or just an enterprising entrepeneur capitalising on his nifty invention?? Is the VeriChip a digital angel? Digital devil is more like it...

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