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The British government is considering implanting RFID tags on prisoners, which will contain identity, address information and criminal records.
This RFID tag is only about the size of two rice grains and can be implanted in the subcutaneous layer and read by a reader.
Implanting RFID tags in the human body
Another proposal suggests linking RFID tags on prisoners to a GPS device to monitor high-risk prisoners.
“We wanted to adopt this new technology a few years ago because it was a good solution to the problems we were facing,” a senior law minister told the Sunday Independent.
“We’ve been hesitant to adopt RFID technology, mainly because of the practicality and ethics of the system. But when you look at the problems that crime enforcement systems are facing right now, you know it’s time to adopt it.
The Attorney General confirmed that they are considering the proposal to use RFID technology as part of prison modernization.
Human rights groups have been criticizing the proposal, arguing that the implantation of tags in the human body is “morally corrupt” and a serious violation of human rights. Liberal Shami Chakrabarti said if the Home Office didn’t realise that chipping prisoners was worse than monitoring shackles, they didn’t need human rights lawyers, they needed common sense.
The RFID proposal was designed to solve a problem with existing surveillance systems (which put a transmitter on an inmate’s bare foot), and 2,000 of the 17,000 inmates who wore shackles escaped by breaking or cutting them.
The UK is moving faster than most countries in RFID adoption, including plans to label test papers.
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