ワクチン証明を皮下装着　スウェーデン企業が開発

【ストックホルムＡＦＰ＝時事】ディストピアな悪夢か、はたまた純粋な利便性の追求か──スウェーデンの企業が、皮膚の下に埋め込んだマイクロチップを新型コロナウイルスのワクチン接種証明として活用することを提唱している。（写真はスウェーデンの首都ストックホルムで、ディスラプティブ・サブダーマルスが開発した皮下埋め込み型マイクロチップをスマートフォンで読み込む、コワーキングスペース「エピセンター」のマーケティングマネジャー、アマンダ・バックさん）
　皮下埋め込み型マイクロチップ技術を開発したのはディスラプティブ・サブダーマルス。同社のハンネス・シェーブラッド社長は「私も腕にチップを埋め込んでいるが、新型コロナのワクチンパスポート（接種証明書）を格納できるようにプログラムした。いつでも（証明書に）アクセスできるようにしたかったからだ」と述べた。
　マイクロチップには接種証明書のＰＤＦデータが格納されており、「チップの上に携帯電話をかざしてスワイプするだけ」で読み込みが完了し、「ロックを解除すれば証明書を表示できる」という。
　多くの人が埋め込み型マイクロチップを「監視目的の恐ろしいテクノロジー」と捉えていることについてシェーブラッド氏は、単なる身分証明書（ＩＤ）として考えてみてほしいと話す。
　また、ウエアラブル端末を活用した健康管理を引き合いに出し、「皮下埋め込み型マイクロチップは２０年、３０年、４０年と使えるが、ウエアラブル端末は３～４年しか使えない」とも指摘した。
　スウェーデンでは、各種スマートキー、名刺、公共交通機関のＩＣカードなどの情報を取り込んだマイクロチップをすでに数千人が皮下装着している。首都ストックホルム在住のアマンダ・バックさんはＡＦＰに、「チップを埋め込んで個人情報を持ち歩くのは自己決定権の問題だと思っている。実際、自分で管理できるようになったと感じる」と語った。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/12/24-13:26）

Dystopian nightmare or a simple convenience? A Swedish company implanting microchips under the skin has is promoting its devices for use as a Covid-19 health pass in a country with thousands of early adopters.
I think it's very much part of my own integrity to have myself chipped and keep my personal data there with me, I actually feel that it's even more controlled on my end, Amanda Back, a Stockholm resident who has implanted the subcutaneous chip developed by DSruptive Subdermals, told AFP.
Though still rare, several thousand Swedes have opted to have an electronic implant inserted under the skin in recent years, eliminating the need to remember key fobs, business cards, public transport cards, and recently: vaccine passes.
The country that created the show Real Humans and its English language adaptation Humans, is also a stronghold of so-called biohackers who are convinced that humans will become evermore entangled with technology in the future.
I have a chip implant in my arm and I have programmed the chip so that I have my Covid passport on the chip and the reason is that I always want to have it accessible and when I read my chip, I just swipe my phone on the chip and then I unlock and it opens up, said Hannes Sjoblad, managing director of DSruptive Subdermals, as a PDF with his vaccine certificate appeared on his phone.
A chip implant costs a hundred euros if you want to buy the more advanced versions, and you can compare this with for example a health wearable that will cost perhaps twice that but at the same time a chip implant you can use for twenty, thirty, forty years. Whereas a wearable you can only use for three, four years, he added.
For Sjoblad, the Covid pass is just one example of a possible application, which will be a thing for the winter of 2021-2022.
The Swedish entrepreneur added he has a strong interest in privacy.
While he acknowledged that many people see chip implants as a scary technology, as a surveillance technology, Sjoblad said that instead they should be viewed as a simple ID tag.
They don't have a battery, they cannot transmit the signal by themselves, so they're basically asleep, they can never tell your location, they are only activated when you touch them with your smartphone, he said.
All implants are voluntary, and if someone were to make them compulsory for prisoners or elderly people in retirement homes, you will find me on the barricades, Sjoblad said.
Nobody can force anyone to get a chip implant.