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January 24, 2008
Tagged identity- privacy or shifting persona?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics.
In the article I'm Not a Number; I'm a Human Being: RFID Tags and Our Personas Sandberg writes about personal integrity.
Swedish athletes Carolina Klüft and Stefan Holm (currently reigning Olympic champions in the heptathlon and high-jump events) recently suggested that elite athletes might have an obligation to implant chips or carry GPS transmitters in order to allow anti-doping organisations to track them. Meanwhile medical researchers debate whether patients should be tagged implanted chips for identification purposes.
Sandberg's argument is that what is important is our ability to shift social personas rather than privacy per se.
Posted by Waldemar at January 24, 2008 10:00 AM