At the end of August, the California senate blocked mandatory employee RFID chipping in the state, which is technical way of saying that companies in California are no longer allowed to require employees to be implanted with radio-frequency identification chips to remain employed.

Until reading that article, I had no idea that mandatory chipping even existed in the United States. Apparently, the privacy-eliminating technology has been spreading, and companies like CityWatcher.com are already requiring certain employees to be chipped.

CityWatcher.com, a Cincinnati video surveillance company, has required employees who work in its secure data center to have a microchip implanted in an arm.

I hate thinking of the end-of-the-world scenarios that come from requiring employees to be tagged so they can be tracked anywhere they go, but... the speed at which chipping technology is growing (chip your pets if they get lost!), the notion of totalitarian government/corporate control is hardly the stuff of fantasy. It's apparently just around the corner.