Implanted RFID Chips Linked To Cancer

Found on Slashdot on Friday, 07 September 2007
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The Associated Press is reporting that microchip implants have induced cancer in laboratory animals and dogs. A series of research articles spanning more than a decade found that mice and rats injected with glass-encapsulated RFID transponders developed malignant, fast-growing, lethal cancers in up to 1% to 10% of cases. The tumors originated in the tissue surrounding the microchips and often grew to completely surround the devices.

So much for implants. Hopefully this will stop politicians from getting ideas like "let's tag everybody".