Bill would ban unwanted tracking devices in bodies

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By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
© February 10, 2010

RICHMOND

If the House of Delegates has its way, Virginians soon will be protected against the threat of having human tracking devices implanted into their bodies.

Del. Mark Cole's bill, HB53, makes the implantation of such a device without a person's informed written consent a misdemeanor. The measure won preliminary approval Tuesday.

Cole, R-Spotsylvania County, said the bill was requested by constituents who told him some employers have begun using such devices to keep track of employees.

Arguing against the bill, Del. Robert Brink, D-Arlington County, said that when he campaigned for office last fall, he never heard any constituents express concern about human tracking devices - or, for that matter, about "the danger of asteroids striking the Earth or the threat posed by giant alligators in our city sewer systems."

"Let's concentrate on real-world problems," he pleaded.

The bill was approved on a voice vote with no further debate.

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Loonies

Submitted by GlockMan on Wed, 02/10/2010 at 9:15 am.

Mark Cole is just responding to his core constituency, the loonie social conservative bible thumpers who see these as possible tools of the antichrist (mark of the beast, yada yada yada). Its amazing crazies such as Cole can expend state time and money to work on fairy tale legistlation when so many problems need addressing in the Commonwealth. Well, with the election of McDonnell as governor, guess we're going to have four years of living in Social Conservative Fantasyland. Let the Leno/Letterman jokes about Virginia begin.

Several years ago the

Submitted by paramedic70002 on Tue, 02/09/2010 at 9:04 pm.

Several years ago the Mexican Attorney General required all his employees to get ships so they could access files. Still, if this is happening in VA I would think it would be illegal under some existing law, like assault maybe. I hope the good legislator is prepared to name names of which VA employers are currently doing this. I call BS but I'm open to have my mind changed.

My wife will be sooo disappointed if this passes.

Submitted by jpjones on Tue, 02/09/2010 at 7:55 pm.

Somehow she got this crazy idea after SC Governor Mark Sanford "went hiking on the Appalachian Trail" last summer.

So I like to hike every now and then! What's the big deal?

IMPLANTED TRACKING DEVICES? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' IMPLANTED TRACKING DEVICES!

?

Submitted by csa1065 on Tue, 02/09/2010 at 7:10 pm.

Does this mean Army & USMC SEAL snipers will have to stop implanting the 7.62-tracking device into the head of known criminals and terrorists?

USMC SEAL's? Is this new?

Submitted by jakew79472 on Tue, 02/09/2010 at 8:02 pm.

USMC SEAL's? Is this new? lol I am sure that the USN SEAL's will continue implanting 7.62 mm and any other necessary tracking devices in only those people that have been carefully screened and found qualified for such a device.

ludicrous

Submitted by SirRantsAlot on Tue, 02/09/2010 at 6:45 pm.

HAAAHahahahaaaaa... !! This bill ranks right up there with "droopy drawers" and "truck nuts" :-))

Not really

Submitted by bornfree on Tue, 02/09/2010 at 7:54 pm.

The things you mentioned actually exist whereas the use of implants by employers to track their employees is fantasy bordering on delusion. I'm going to invest in tin-foil futures tomorrow as there will be a run if this bill passes. My employer can't afford microchips so we wear "deelybobbers" on our heads so our supervisor can see us if we walk by his cubicle.