Covid microchip: UK startup says technology WILL be able to track your every move

“The chip is inert and is activated when an NFC reader is passed over it.

“Most smartphones are now NFC readers and can read the chip.

“So while the chip in itself does not allow you to be tracked, in reality, any venue which scans it can then use geolocation to record where you have been scanned/checked in.”

Mr McClure explained that MedTag users can use this card to “get medical info, with the ability to send the geolocation to their emergency contacts.

“It doesn’t enable tracking in any way.”

He said: “Ours is developed for applications such as biking. If I’m biking and I’m incapacitated, it will give the first responder something to scan and basically give him my medical history.

According to MedTag’s website: “When your profile is accessed your emergency contacts instantly receive an alert with a geo-location of where the device was accessed.”

While both technologies work in a similar way, Mr McClure slammed the use of technology to track users.

He added: “The concern that I have is that this is fine if you have a relatively benign government.

“But if you’re in a country where having political associations and so on is problematic, you could be basically arrested for who you associate with.

“When the developer said that this cannot be used to track your location- yes it absolutely can, but not on its own.

“With the right technology scanning it, it can 100 percent track your location at that point in time.

“But in an environment where you actually have to mandatorily show a covid pass in order to get inside a venue, at that point in time it absolutely can tell where you are.”

In a way, both of these technologies track your location and data to a much lesser degree than your GPS enabled smartphone, which can track your real-time location, not just when you scan it somewhere.

Source: Express.co.uk