microchip tracking
Implant-based location monitoring
Microchip tracking refers to monitoring location or movement using implanted microchips, typically the rice-grain-sized RFID chips placed under the skin of pets and livestock.
These chips contain identification numbers readable by scanners at close range.
Despite persistent fears about government microchip tracking, the technology doesn't work like GPS—chips are passive and can't transmit location data.
The phrase often appears in conspiracy theories about surveillance: They want to microchip us for tracking.
- GPSSatellite-based location technology
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- government surveillanceOfficial observation of citizens
- implantDevice placed inside tissue
- RFIDWireless identification via electromagnetic fields
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