Indonesian State wants to tag AIDS patients with RFID tags
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 activity.
Lawmaker John Manangsang told Reuters: “It’s a simple technology. A signal from the microchip will track their movements and this will be received by monitoring authorities.” If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty.
The Jakarta Post newspaper the head of Papua’s National AIDS Commission as saying the plan violated human rights. The Indonesian Government claims that the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Papua is 20 times the national average.
I have to agree with Gizmodo on this: “I wonder if his plan B is just putting them in camps or shoot them straight away.”
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Nov 25, 2008
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.
Feb 21, 2009
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