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He mentions he’s in favor of the MIT created digital tattoo to show when people are vaccinated. I’m not thrilled with the idea of being marked like cattle.
by someonehere 7y ago
He mentions he’s in favor of the MIT created digital tattoo to show when people are vaccinated. I’m not thrilled with the idea of being marked like cattle.
- non-entity 7y agoThis sounds like a great way to fuel antivaxxers tbh
- Retric 7y agoIt’s going to be interesting how antivax people respond if the vaccine is out early enough to be useful.
- non-entity 7y agoI'd wager that theres a big overlap of antivaxxers and people who think the virus is a hoax / media sensationalism
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoBet: Anti-vaxxers will be a much smaller sub-culture after Covid-19 is done with us.
- derrick_jensen 7y agoMicrosoft is behind an initiative called ID2020, which is exactly this. I'd imagine it'll only see use in impoverished nations that don't have proper identification ( he details in Inside Bills Brain on Netflix that a major hurdle to get over is Islamic groups intentionally withdrawing from vaccinations and lying about it)
- tasogare 7y agoIt's a great idea... from tech billionaires point of view. They could then link it to your Windows license, Facebook & Amazon accounts etc and potentially withhold treatments if you're not a good spender. The zero privacy world they dream where they can monetize every bits of our existence will then come true.
- derrick_jensen 7y agoI doubt they would do that
- Kaze404 7y agoWhy give them the option in the first place? It's not like billionaires have a good track record.
- keiferski 7y agoLink for more information: http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218 http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218 The whole thing sounds absurd and a huge privacy violation, honestly. Their reasoning is that "..there is little infrastructure for storing medical records, so there’s often no easy way to determine who needs a particular vaccine." So rather than invest in the ancient technology called paper and file cabinets, they need to embed a high-tech tattoo? Mobile phones are pretty ubiquitous in Africa; why not build a vaccine record system based on that instead?
- tcbawo 7y agoIf only we had a system for 'fingerprinting' individuals, and digitizing the results into a searchable 'database'
- gpderetta 7y agoI know! We should use a Blockchain right? /s obviously. Although probably less ridiculous than other uses.
- kaybe 7y agoDoes the US not use the WHO cards? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Jaune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Jaune
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- imglorp 7y agoIf you think about it, it's a shortcut for drawing blood and analyzing it to see what antibodies are in there. As long as the marker has zero PII, just what vaccine was given, this seems harmless enough and vastly more helpful than the current paper system. The potential for abuse is limited because you need to have the person in front of you, and then the only info is a vector of vaccine administered bits.
- currymj 7y agoin parts of American evangelical Christianity there’s a longstanding interpretation of the “mark of the beast” (which in the Book of Revelation is some sort of sign or mark without which people are forbidden from engaging in trade) as some kind of microchip or RFID implant. I do not expect people who believe this to react well if they literally have to get a microchip implant to be allowed to go into stores or to work. These sorts of beliefs are more common than you might expect in large parts of the country.