A Swedish company is testing the implantation of subcutaneous chips that integrate data from the health pass. This device is untraceable and harmless to health, argues the young shoot from Stockholm.
For several years, the use of subcutaneous chips has been adopted by thousands of Swedes. Some use them to validate their metro ticket or to access their office. No larger than a grain of rice, these microchips integrate the technology of smartphones or bank cards that allow you to pay, without contact, your purchases in stores.
Recently, Swedish technophiles can also add data from their health pass to their subcutaneous chip. Demonstration with Hannes Sjoblad, Managing Director of DSruptive Subdermals, the young growth who developed the process: “ I have here a microchip implanted in my arm on which I programmed my health pass in order to have it permanently with me. And if I want to read the data contained in the chip, I simply slide a smartphone incorporating a sanitary pass verification system onto my arm, the software in the device opens and displays the PDF containing the data that will remain like this forever. accessible to me and to any other person authorized to consult them. For example, if I go to a movie theater or shopping mall, controllers will be able to check my status even if I don’t have my phone. “.
Testing on a voluntary basis
The company ensures that users’ personal data is protected. Because no offense to the followers of conspiracy theories, the contactless technology used by these microchips is only activated when an information reading device is placed a few centimeters from the implant. In addition, this device is unable to connect by itself and remotely to the Internet, specifies the manager of DSruptive Subdermals: ” If you understand how this subcutaneous implant works, you will find that it is not powered by any battery and cannot deliver a signal on its own. Concretely, these chips are passive and stay asleep, they never transmit your location and only activate when you touch them with a smartphone. And what is important to point out is that the people who receive these implants do so on a voluntary basis. This device is intended for individuals curious by nature, wishing to experiment with new technologies.. “
An expensive device
On the other hand, at the price of 100 euros per chip, the device will have a hard time competing with the free QR Codes of the application. AllAntiCovid to render the same service. In addition, this is without counting the price of the subcutaneous surgical intervention which can only be carried out by a doctor or a certified tattoo-piercer.
But the young growth is already imagining other applications for its implant in the field of health. The chip, which is also equipped with a micro-thermometer, makes it possible to know the body temperature in real time of its wearer. Data that could then be transmitted to the user’s smartphone and transferred, for example, to their doctor.
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