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Missouri law would fine employers for requiring microchip implants

By CHRIS BLANK/The Associated Press

May 29, 2008 | 10:47 p.m. CST

JEFFERSON CITY — Your bosses can still make you work weekends and give you projects you loathe. But Missouri lawmakers have voted to make it a crime if they order that a microchip be implanted in your arm.

Forcing someone to get a microchip implantis already barred in California, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Legislation awaiting Gov. Matt Blunt’s signature would make it a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $1,000 for a boss who demands that a worker get an implant.

Katherine Albrecht, an expert in consumer privacy and radio frequency identification, acknowledges that microchip implants might sound like “black helicopters and tin foil hats.â€

I think it should be illegal everywhere to require employees to submit their bodies to a known carcinogen. These chips have been linked to fatal cancers in animals in numerous studies all over the globe. The manufacturers admitted to hiding this information from the FDA when they obtained permission for human use.

Legislator crusades against microchips
Local leaders express concern over implanting devices
by Jimmy Myers
Sunday, June 1, 2008

Developing rocket hardware for a mission to the moon doesn’t preclude a former aerospace engineer’s opposition to implanting microchips in humans.

Missouri Rep. Jim Guest, R-King City, drummed up opposition among fellow legislators this year and found no resistance. They pushed through an amendment to a bill that makes it illegal for employers to force their employees to have the identification microchips implanted for any reason. It awaits the governor’s signature.

“Actually, it came more from my work to protect our privacy and our freedom,â€