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Office complex implants RFID chips in employees’ hands

Posted on February 6, 2015June 30, 2025 by Dissent

Lucas Mearian reports:

The corporate tenants of a Swedish high-tech office complex are having RFID chips implanted in their hands, enabling access through security doors, as well as services such as copy machines, all without PIN codes or swipe cards.

The employees working at Epicenter, a 15,000-square-foot building in Stockholm, can even pay for lunch using their implants — just as they would with the swipe of a credit card.

Read more on Computerworld.

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