MICROCHIPPING – CRIME PREVENTION OR VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS Cover Image

MIKROČIPIRANJE – PREVENCIJA KRIMINALITETA ILI KRŠENJE TEMELJNIH LJUDSKIH PRAVA I SLOBODA
MICROCHIPPING – CRIME PREVENTION OR VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

Author(s): Tomica Starčević, Jambrek Petrak Ines
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Social differentiation, Social Informatics
Published by: Visoka škola “CEPS – Centar za poslovne studije” Kiseljak
Keywords: human rights; technology; microchipping; eavesdropping; privacy;

Summary/Abstract: Human rights have become one of the most pressing and intractable matters of political life, and perhaps even of life as such. We might even say that there could be no life without human rights, without, at the very least, the right to live. This is why, from their very beginnings, human rights have always been a way to think about what it means to be human, and what it means to have the right both to live and to be human. Why do governments abuse human rights and what can be done to deter and reverse abusive practices? The technology offers important health and nonhealth benefits, but raises ethical concerns, including privacy and the potential for coercive implantation of RFID tags in humans before their use becomes widespread and it becomes too late to prevent misuse of this usefull but ethically probematic technology.There is a benefit of an implanable RFID chip but also the erosion of our privacy and a right to bodily integrity might be a problem. Implanting humans with RFID tags is leading to some difficult questions as well as cameras all over the world and eavesdropping. They are definitively threats to humans privacy and the experts must consider how to balance between securitiy and liberty.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-22
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian