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They didn't say the GPS was in the implant.

>The company has just launched a mobile phone app that pairs the chip with the phone’s GPS, enabling the implantee’s ___location to be tracked.

The phone app reads the RFID to ensure that the person is at the same ___location as the phone.




Look at the whole paragraph -

"The company has just launched a mobile phone app that pairs the chip with the phone’s GPS, enabling the implantee’s ___location to be tracked (...) Could he ever see the company using GPS to track its chipped employees? “No,” he says. “There’s no reason to.”

Maybe the CEO just meant -he- wouldn't ever use that, but to my mind the question makes more sense as asking "Hey, do you plan on putting a GPS on the chip" rather than "Hey, do you plan on actually using this functionality you just built out". But I may just be misunderstanding. That said, the level of technical knowledge of mainstream reporting has...generally not been the best.




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