Mexico’s Attorney General Gets Microchip Implant
CNN – Mexico attorney general gets microchip implant
The headline is rather amusing. The story behind it? Not so much:
Mexico’s attorney general said on Monday he had had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted. Attorney General Rafael Macedo said a number of his staff had also been fitted with chips which will give them exclusive and secure access to a national, computerized database for crime investigators that went live on Monday. “It’s an area of high security, it’s necessary that we have access to this, through a chip, which what’s more is unremovable,” Macedo told reporters.
“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,” he said, admitting the chip hurt “a little.”The chips would enable the wearer to be found anywhere inside Mexico, in the event of an assault or kidnapping, said Macedo. And kidnapping is a huge problem here. From 1992 to 2002, Mexico saw some 15,000 kidnappings, second only to war-torn Colombia, according to the Inter-American Development Bank.
Crime-fighting is a dangerous business in Mexico, where police are notoriously corrupt and where political figures and investigative journalists sometimes risk assassination. Mexico has seen a surge in violent crime recently, with an onslaught of headlines about murders and kidnappings prompting Fox to pledge in a national broadcast to crack down on crime.
Unremovable?
Perhaps. But easily disarmed.