Whenever anyone suggests that, for example, microchips implanted under our skin are only a minor extension of already-existing monitoring, or that “the innocent have nothing to fear” from increased surveillance and tracking (Report, 12 November), I mentally rerun the events in Denmark in September 1943 but with this latest technology. September 1943 was when the Danes, having been tipped off that Germany was about to round up and exterminate the Jewish population there, suddenly admitted these people to hospital or hid them in their homes under “Danish” names such as Jensen. Thousands were saved. Now how would all this have played out if there had been chip implants or electronic ID cards then?
Dr Hillary J Shaw
Newport, Shropshire
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