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was fostered, funded and even directed by government
* agencies.
*
* Once the utility of tracking Alzheimer's patients was demonstrated, it was
* inevitable that someone would consider applications in children. As
* kidnappings and murders of children gain a higher media profile, we are
* likely to hear calls for the use of child tracking devices. The proposed
* panacea could someday be the implantable microchip.
*
* Incredibly, someone was working on just such a system back in 1989.
* According to the Arizona Republic of July 20th, 1989, inventor Jack
* Dunlap was working on a product known as KIDSCAN, designed to help
* locate children who have been kidnapped or murdered.
*
* The article states: "Each child whose parents signed up for
* KIDSCAN would get a computer chip planted under the skin and an
* identification number. The chip would transmit a signal that would bounce
* off a satellite and be picked up by police on a computer-screen map."
*
* The syringe implantable biochip
*
* Which brings us to what is undoubtedly the most fearsome potential threat
* in the surveillance arsenal -- one that should raise the hairs on the neck
* of even the most trusting techno-child of the nineties. It is the
* implantable biochip transponder.
*
* When implanted under the skin of the subject, the biochip will emit low
* frequency FM radio waves that can travel great distances e.g., some miles
* up into space to an orbiting satellite. The transmission would provide
* information on the exact location of the "chipee": his latitude, longitude
* and elevation to within a few feet anywhere on the planet.
*
* The April 2nd, 1989 Marin Independent Journal discussed the theory of
* biochip implants in humans. Tim Willard, the then- executive officer of


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