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Toward a "chipped" population.(Inside Report)(Brief Article)

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Mexican attorney general Rafael Macedo announced that he and several of his staff have been "fitted with chips which will give them exclusive and secure access to a national, computerized database for crime investigators," reported CNN on July 13.

"It's an area of high security, it's necessary that we have access to this, through a chip [that's] unremovable," Macedo told the media. "The system is here and I already have it. It's solely for access, for safety and so that I can be located at any moment wherever I am." Implantation of the chip in his arm "hurt a little," he admitted. As British commentator Lester Haines of The Register points out, it could hurt a great deal more were ...

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