Breast is barred
Sarah Standing 11:43am
Truth is indeed often stranger than fiction. It appears Big Brother is not just watching our every move but has also infiltrated our bodies. Speaking to a cranial surgeon over the weekend, I was fascinated to discover that most of our replaced, repaired or “surgically-enhanced” body parts are now bar-coded and given serial numbers - just like supermarket goods or a improbable plot devised by Ira Levin. Jasmine Fiore - the former Playboy model allegedly murdered by her boyfriend Ryan Alexander Jenkins - was recently identified by her breast implants. Her teeth had been forcibly removed, yet this did not deter detectives from their investigation.
For those who strongly object to the government holding DNA records, the writing is on the wall: there is no escape. Forget the body-snatchers - from now on, all but the uber-healthy amongst us can be simply “swiped”. Serialisation rights have just taken on a whole new meaning.
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August 24th, 2009 12:19pm Report this commentPRIME minister Gordon Brown has sent a special 25th anniversary message to Carol Vorderman's increasingly enormous breasts.
Chris
August 24th, 2009 12:20pm Report this commentIdentification via breast implants has been used in 'CSI' and 'The Wire'. (Although in the latter, it was only something like 'three of them were in Budapest, Hungary last year.'
Charlie Dyson
August 24th, 2009 12:25pm Report this commentI suspect sliting open its citizens to read serial numbers on artificial hips and breast implants would prove an impractical method of identification for a police state.
Hawkeye
August 24th, 2009 12:32pm Report this commentMedical parts, like aircraft parts, have been numbered for years. The original purpose was that if a defect was identified in a part you could trace all patients with similar "kit" installed in them. For instance if an artifical hip joint was prone to breaking you could have a "product recall" because you knew who had that type of hip.
Our obsession with the surveillance society has merely put a new slant on things.
Death or Tory
August 24th, 2009 1:26pm Report this comment@ Charlie Dyson
No need for a scalpel - they just need to read your Bar Code with a handheld scanner...
cuffleyburgers
August 24th, 2009 1:26pm Report this commentOnly a matter of time before they are all fitted with RFIDs, in fact before WE are all fitted with RFIDs at birth (for our own protection you understand, if you have nothing to hide...
Hysteria
August 24th, 2009 1:45pm Report this commentCharlie - attaching RFD's would make cutting folk open redundant.
Viral Ganatra
August 24th, 2009 2:31pm Report this commenttest comment
David "a taxi driver writes" Bouvier
August 24th, 2009 5:26pm Report this commentI am not aware of any implants with remote readability or any suggestion of it.
The article merely shows that the author has recently discovered something that was of course common knowledge to any viewer of popular television crime drama from Columbo onwards.
Classic Poly-Filla.
I suggest we might find more logic in "dogs with ID chips - not long before they do it to people eh?" followed quickly by "I had that Fox Mulder in the back of my cab once"
JohnAnt
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