VeriChip Tags Mexican Officials
15 July, 2004
category: Biometrics, RFID
“Mexico’s top federal prosecutors and investigators began receiving chip implants in their arms in November in order to get access to restricted areas inside the attorney general’s headquarters, said Antonio Aceves, general director of Solusat, the company that distributes the microchips in Mexico.”
“The chips that have been implanted are manufactured by VeriChip Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc. of Palm Beach, Fla.”
Go Applied Digital Solutions, (still editor’s favorite RFID company.) We had suspected ADS was involved when we first heard wind of the story. The company has been aggressively pursuing contracts with Latin America where officials face constant threats. The question is why we didn’t hear about this earlier…