Can Supreme Stop This ?

Times of India ( 26 July ) carries following report :

“ First US co puts chips in workers “

On August 1 , employees at Three Square Market , a technology company in the US can choose to have a chip , the size of a grain of rice , injected between their thumb and index finger

Once that is done, any task involving RFID ( radio frequency identification ) technology – swiping into the office building, paying for food in the cafeteria – can be accomplished with a wave of the hand

Alessandro Acquisti  , a professor of IT and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College , says ,

“ Technology designed for one purpose may later be used for another , A micro-chip implanted to allow for easy building access could , in theory , be used later , for example , to track the length of employees’ lunch breaks , without their knowledge “

Todd Westby, the chief executive of Three Square, emphasized that the chip’s capabilities were limited.

“ It’s not a GPS tracking device . Your cellphone does 100 times more reporting of data than does an RFID chip “

I had described a similar experiment , under way at the Belgian firm , NewFusion , in my earlier blog :

Internet of  Humans  [  09  Feb  2017  ]

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/02/internet-of-humans-ioh.html

With the raging debate ( in the Supreme Court and the popular media ) re the “ Right to Privacy “ , there is no chance that this chip implant technology will find its way to India , any time soon

But as Todd Westby hinted :

A SMART PHONE COULD DO ALL THAT THE IMPLANTED RFID CHIP CAN DO – AND MUCH MORE !

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Marking attendance using a Smart Phone , is a “ No Brainer “  !

To know how this can be done , read :

From  BAD  to  MAD ( 01  Jan  2016  )

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/06/from-bad-to-mad.html

“ HOW “ part is no Rocket Science !

Prepare to be amazed by the WHY , as explained by me , in this blog !

If Mukesh Ambani were to read this , he would make “ Attendance Recording  App “ , a built-in feature of his about to be released JIO ( 4G ) phone ( HR managers would endorse this )

That would persuade  millions of Indian Employers to fork out Rs 1500 deposit , and give  these  JIO phones to ALL of their employees  !

Wrong Question :  “ Can Supreme stop this ? “

Right  Question  :   “ Should Supreme resist this or direct the Central Government to

                             implement this Mobile based Attendance  System ? “

27  July  2017

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