"While tens of thousands of tiny radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices have been implanted in animals for years, there were suspicions that, one day, they would have use in humans, too. That suspicion was confirmed this week, when Mexico's Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha reported that he had a chip implanted in his arm for security reasons. Macedo went on to say that 160 of his employees had been implanted with the rice-grain-sized chips, manufactured by the VeriChip Corp., of Delray, FL," reports Techweb.
"'We've sold about 7,000 [chips] worldwide,' said Angela Fulcher, VeriChip's vice president of marketing and communications, in an interview Thursday. 'We think about 1,000 have been implanted in humans.' Many final destinations of the chips aren't known, she said, simply because they are marketed through distributors, and VeriChip doesn't always know where they end up."
Comment: This is the same as the chip used by a Barcelona night club, as reported in Online (news and feature).
