This last The Economist had a few scary sentences, from robots making shirts in China to the problems of the US unilaterally pulling out of trade deals with no back up and others but this..
"A few firms, such as Mindshare, a media agency in Sweden, and Three Square Market, a tech firm in Wisconsin, have already moved onto the next stage: implanting a chip under a worker's skin. Employees gain a way to open canteen doors and pay for meals in the canteen.."
Essentially there's been a move to provide employees with rewards for improving their health. At a more benign end they provide Fitbit and reward for walking certain distances but the above..
..I find it highly unethical to even offer this, to provide additional benefits on the condition you implant a fucking chip under your skin to monitor you. I find it as odd that there isn't outrage among employees about this. The extent to which we'll acquiesce to things for minor convenience..
..and before you judge too harshly remember that a mobile phone is effectively this, for zero real benefit. We provide companies with all sorts of information from exactly where we are to what we're doing.
Shouldn't we be taking back our privacy?
California's privacy law has a perfectly good solution, though: requiring web sites to work exactly the same way whether they can spy on people or not. At that point, there's no advantage to giving up anything.
