Microchipping should be for criminals

If you microchip me and tomorrow I want to go relax and be away from everything, I won't be able to. It's not that I have something to hide, but I just don't want people to know where I am.

If you tell a fish that it needs to climb a tree, it will always live thinking it is stupid [as said by Albert Einstein]. Similarly, if you tell people that if they don't get microchipped they will always be under threat, they will go ahead and get microchipped!

They will believe that being on the radar all the time is a good thing. But there are so many ways in which even such a system can fail in identifying criminals.

What it can be good for is for criminals who have committed serious crimes. If you've committed a crime, a serious crime, then may be this is a good technology.

Even if you've spent your time in jail, given back to society, whatever it may be, you should still be trackable, no matter what. Ted Bundy, for example. Now that is the kind of man you want to get microchipped!

- The reader is a banker living in Dubai