Comments on: RF-IDing the dead

After Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi coroner Gary Hargrove used RFID chips to avoid mix-ups. He now endorses their use whole-heartedly.

[Len Bullard]

Use In Combat

So the next step will be to inject the RFID chips into soldiers. This solves problems of combat associated with dog tags for both active combatants and casualties.

The question one asks is how difficult is it to remove and RFID chip implanted by such means.

Not a Good Sign...

I have been keeping up on stories about the implications of implanting RFID or any other sort of identification defice into humans. This has both major privacy and religious implications.

It seems to me that VeriChip is actively seeking ways to get their RFID chips into humans, and are starting with dead ones because they can't say no. They found a sucker in Mississippi that couldn't say no to free equipment and chips. What a shame.

We need to stop this, or at least have the opportunity to completely understand all of the issues before people begin inserting chips into people... DEAD or ALIVE.

[Mirouni]

WOW!

this is so interesting! I have never heard of sucha thing as human implantation, I am going to share this with my friends!
Alorie Gilbert is a superb writer, and chose a good subject!

[bphilpot]

Intelligent RFID application

Although it was brought about by a catastrophe, I was pleased to see the CNET article about Dr. Cary Hargrove's use of RFID technology to identify some of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Congratulations to Dr. Hargrove and Mississippi's Harrison County for embracing this technology tool to address a critical and sensitive need. Kudos to VeriChip for making the tags, scanners and injectors available for the project.

[asperger]

RFID for corpses, how awful

who wants to get all stinky messing with corpses anyway. Please don't even look at my rotting flesh when you find me, i'm so poor i'm not worth the effort.

make the RFID chip fireproof, throw all the dead poor in the incinerator together, collect and identify the tags later. you'll save hundreds of dollars!, and no civic minded poor person could possibly complain about that. avoid mix-ups, oh yeah and the smell too. very streamlined! modern.

and they chose to use the word 'wholeheartedly', oh yes, with his whole heart.