A Swedish start-up tech company announced earlier this month that it invented a scannable microchip that is implanted in peoples arms and can display your COVID-19 vaccination status. This digital implant is designed to be embedded into people's arms so your vaccine passport pops up when scanned.<\/p>\n
While new in humans, this kind of technology is very common for household pets, where most of them are embedded with a microchip that reveals the animals medical history when scanned.<\/p>\n
For the many people that would be sceptical of the device, the company assured that the implants are not tracking devices, and are only in use when they are scanned.<\/p>\n
However, Paul McClure, the co-founder of a different scannable medical card called MedTag, says other companies will be able to use the technology to track people.<\/p>\n
Speaking toExpress.co.uk, Mr McClure explained: Basically, the technology works on Near Field Communication (NFC).<\/p>\n
The chip is inert and is activated when an NFC reader is passed over it.<\/p>\n
Most smartphones are now NFC readers and can read the chip.<\/p>\n
So while the chip in itself does not allow you to be tracked, in reality, any venue which scans it can then use geolocation to record where you have been scanned\/checked in.<\/p>\n
Mr McClure explained that MedTag users can use this card to \"get medical info, with the ability to send the geolocation to their emergency contacts.<\/p>\n
\"It doesn't enable tracking in any way.\"<\/p>\n
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But if you're in a country where having political associations and so on is problematic, you could be basically arrested for who you associate with.<\/p>\n
When the developer said that this cannot be used to track your location- yes it absolutely can, but not on its own.<\/p>\n
With the right technology scanning it, it can 100 percent track your location at that point in time.<\/p>\n
But in an environment where you actually have to mandatorily show a covid pass in order to get inside a venue, at that point in time it absolutely can tell where you are.<\/p>\n
In a way, both of these technologies track your location and data to a much lesser degree than your GPS enabled smartphone, which can track your real-time location, not just when you scan it somewhere.<\/p>\n
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