{"id":117,"date":"2005-07-20T03:06:31","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=117"},"modified":"2005-07-20T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T20:07:08","slug":"former-bush-official-to-get-rfid-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/former-bush-official-to-get-rfid-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bush official to get RFID tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush&#8217;s first term and a former Governor of Wisconsin, is going to get tagged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thompson has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company that specializes in subcutaneous RFID tags for humans and pets.<\/p>\n<p>To help promote the concepts behind the technology, Thompson himself will get an RFID tag implanted under his skin.<\/p>\n<p>Human RFID tags have emerged as one of the more controversial technologies in years. Civil libertarians theorize that the chips will allow governments or corporations to track people&#8217;s movement and behavior. Some Christians have said the chips are so evil they fulfill a biblical prophesy about satanic influences. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Former+Bush+official+to+get+RFID+tag\/2100-1029_3-5793685.html?tag=alert\">click here<\/a> for more info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush&#8217;s first term and a former Governor of Wisconsin, is going to get tagged.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company that specializes in subcutaneous RFID tags for humans and pets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rfid","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}