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Indonesian State wants to tag AIDS patients with RFID tags

Started by Duncan Riley · 7 months ago

The Indonesian State of Papua is preparing to pass a new law that will require some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with RFID chips.
Under the proposal, patients who had shown “actively sexual behavior” could be implanted with the RFID chip to monitor their activit ... Continue reading »

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  • jnau

    7 months ago

    ...and so it continues. Chip away at freedom by using a fear as a justification. Who's next?
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  • Neal Jansons

    7 months ago

    I don't think it's a bad idea to start having penalties for people knowingly infecting people with AIDS or any other terminal or likely to be terminal illness. It's negligent homicide, or at least manslaughter. I don't know exactly how RFID tags will help track that, though.
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  • hiv symptoms

    4 months ago

    I dont agree that there should be RFID chip implanted in HIV positive people. They are human and should be treated like human, not animal. These people are already going through a bad phase of their life so we should support them instead of humiliating them. One more thing, every person does not become hiv positive only due to unprotected sex
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