The Food and Drug Administration has considered approving radio frequency identification chips or RFID chips that are implanted under the skin that will hold information about the person that the chip is implanted into. Would you like to have all of you personal information about your entire life on a tiny computer chip, the size of a grain of rice, implanted under your skin? The FDA should not approve the implantation of RFID chips in humans. First, the problem with RFID chips will be discussed and second, the possible solutions to RFID chips will be discussed.

The problem with implanting the RFID chips, or the VeriChip, is privacy. Every detail of your life is defined on this chip. According to David Killick of The Press, a newspaper in New Zealand published in May of 2003, details such as your social security number, your drivers license...