There's a limit on how small you can make a power source that radiates enough power to be picked up by the cell phone system, never mind some kind of satellite. The current chips re-radiate a weak signal when beamed by a sensing scanner (don't know the exact tech details), and a receiver a few feet away can pick this up. A radio wave that fired enough power into you to make a non-powered "chip" radiate a signal that could be picked up miles away would probably boil your eyeballs.
Even if you do postulate a future-tech "chip" sized radio beacon with some kind of self-contained nuclear or bioelectric battery, the number of ways you could block it if you wanted to are legion, and unless it's implanted deep inside your body (not under the skin where I've seen them), it can be removed quite easily, too. The concept is inherently voluntary--as with the Star Trek episode "Court Martial," a Phase One Search assumes that the person searched for wants to be found.
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Maybe. Not easy, though.
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- Are you ready to be chipped THE MARK OF THE BEAST
- We already ARE chipped.
- 666 reasons for concern
- Just curious...why don't you mind having a Social Security number?
- Did all the Libertarians migrate to the Democratic party? (n/t)
- "there is little that the chip would do that has not already been common practice for years. "
- Completely painless
- Chips
- Currently, that is true. Likely not true in 10 years. (n/t)
- Maybe. Not easy, though.
- The chips need not broadcast far if the sensors are everywhere. (n/t)
- Do I have to spell it out? Don't get the damn chip!
- The chips need not broadcast far if the sensors are everywhere. (n/t)
- Maybe. Not easy, though.
- re: Chips
- Currently, that is true. Likely not true in 10 years. (n/t)
- re: Just curious...seems that she does mind.