INDIANAPOLIS – No one’s attempting it in Indiana so far, but a bill to ban your employer from making you get micro-chipped is on its way to Governor Holcomb.

Both the House and Senate voted unanimously to make it illegal to require you to have a chip implanted in your body to take the place of an employee I-D card. Terre Haute Republican Jon Ford says it’s one thing if you choose to do it, but he says a chip could be used not just to store your personal info, but to track your whereabouts 24/7.

Ford says he’s not aware of anyone proposing to require the implants, about the size of a grain of rice, but he says the technology is there and in use. He says the state should draw a line in the sand now.

Ford says at least one American company and several in Europe are using chip implants not for employee I-D, but in place of credit cards.

 

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