🚀 go-pugleaf

Hughes has also moved into "the
#   human market."
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#   Effective this year, the federal Food and Drug Administration requires
#   every breast implant carry a transponder chip with a unique identifying
#   number. A hand-held scanner can read the number much like a supermarket
#   scanner.
#   
#   The reason the government gave for the transponder was that both the doctor
#   and patient might lose track of what kind of breast implant was installed,
#   and so if a certain model had a recall, they could tell what was installed.
#   
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#   The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S.
#   Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research called "Embedded Electronic
#   Fingerprint" to develop a transponder the size of a grain of wheat that
#   could be attached to a garment until the owner threw it out.
#   
#   Heretofor, this application has been considered only for security purposes.
#   
#   The definition of "security", according to the textile industry magazine
#   'Bobbin', has been expanded to include "anti-counterfeit" tracking after
#   purchase. [What???]
#   
#   Could a machine-readable tag on a person's clothing serve many of the same
#   tracking purposes an one embedded in the body?

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Sure, government can give debate reaso