Re: GTAC to cost £25m - Home Office 27/3/ 2000

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 06:01 PM 3/30/2000 +0000, David Crick wrote:
>Caspar Bowden wrote:
>> 
>> Home Office 27/3/2000: Press Release
>> ...
>> 2. The breakdown of the CMF £157 million is as follows:
>> ...
>> Electronic 'chipping' of goods £4.5m
>
>I presume people have heard about this one? Basically the
>idea is to microchip goods so that they can be traced and
>returned to the owner if stolen.
>
>The Pentium III ID / Microsoft UID number scenario hits
>mainstream goods.
>
>Covert encoding of the ID onto the recording media?, etc.

We have had our dogs microchipped.  I can't at present see the threat to
our privacy, confidentiality, etc, that this entails.  Am I missing something?

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm

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