Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data 254
OMNIpotusCOM writes "Tickets to the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies will contain a microchip with information about the ticket holder, including a photograph, passport details, addresses, e-mail, and telephone numbers. The stated intent is to keep troublemakers out of the 91,000-seat National Stadium so that they cannot cause disruptions while China is on world-wide television, but it brings up serious concerns for privacy and identity theft."
Well That's It (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well That's It (Score:5, Funny)
Scalpers? (Score:5, Funny)
Tibet (Score:4, Funny)
So much for free Tibet... with every purchase.
Re:Call me a skeptic, but (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Just wait this is only the first (Score:3, Funny)
It will trickle down much further than that. Soon you will need one of these cards to unlock the door to your house... from the inside.
Re:Just wait this is only the first (Score:2, Funny)
Why bother with photos? (Score:5, Funny)
Westerners all look the same, anyway.
What's that? Ohh, you round-eyes got no sense of humour!
Re:Why bother with photos? (Score:2, Funny)
Why are we putting up with this? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wrong Order (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Call me a skeptic, but (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well That's It (Score:0, Funny)
In Communist China... (Score:2, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:would this be unreasonable for a business? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The home of the free? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, that would be an interesting protest.
Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And If I go to the US (rant/troll) (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but cross our borders, submit to our policies.
Similarly, you're free not to go to China and attend the Olympics if you wish not to.
(okay...I'm done channeling Bush...can you please remove the electrodes from my genetalia now?)
Re:Call me a skeptic, but (Score:3, Funny)
Re:China does not have to be nice. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Inevitable (Score:1, Funny)