A Skin Deep Big Brother Proposal (Reason Magazine - Hit and Run)
Each week on the BBC a “global thinker from the worlds of philosophy, science, psychology or the arts is given a minute to put forward a radical, inspiring or controversial idea.” This week’s idea comes from the science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon. Her proposal is that everyone be implanted with a chip at birth that would provide a fast and inexpensive way to identify people. Ms. Moon cites a reduction in friendly fire incidents during war and crime investigations as some of the benefits of such a system. While the proposed system is almost self evidently insane, what is especially worrying is Ms. Moon’s justification for such a system. Ms. Moon argues that governments already surveille us using numerous methods. Why should our skin be a barrier of entry to government when it already wiretaps phones and installs surveillance cameras? Although Ms. Moon might not have realized it, she is providing a perfect example of why government-backed surveillance measures need to be opposed more vehemently. A proposal such as the one discussed would only be given time by an international news organization if some level of government intrusion were not already accepted. While the U.S. ...
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