Never.
I suppose medical information would be fine, but I wouldn't do it personally. Still the information would have to be programmed by a private firm most likley, so that firm would have a database on you. If you don't mind that then go ahead, but I would rather have the least amount of people knowing my personal information as possible.
If is was issued by the government as voluntary I would not. And if it were made mandatory under law I wouldn't either.
This is sort of happening in the UK. Except it's a national ID card, not a microchip. Information is being consilidated on one card and into one database. The program is voluntary, however, if you choose not to get a card, it becomes more difficult to do normal things as the card replaces other things.
I could see this happening with something like microchips in the future. Their voluntary, but those people who do it will have some benefits. And those who don't will have a tough time doing things like banking, or entering federal buildings or things like that.
But I think a National ID card is on the way much sooner than the microchip is.
A card could consolidate medical records, criminal records, dna, fingerprints, SIN, drivers license, banking info, debit card, passport and gps tracking all in one and I think there are probably a lot of people who would go for it.
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Enabling legislation for the British national identity card was passed under the Identity Cards Act 2006 [1]. The multi-billion pound scheme [2] has yet to enter procurement. The cards will have a lesser role than the database they are linked to, which is known as the National Identity Register (NIR). The Act specifies fifty categories of information that the NIR can hold on each citizen [3], including up to 10 fingerprints, digitised facial scan and iris scan, current and past UK and overseas places of residence of all residents of the UK throughout their lives and indexes to other Government databases - which would allow them to be connected. The legislation also says that any further information can be added. [4].
The legislation further says that those renewing or applying for passports must be entered on to the NIR. It is expected that this will happen soon after the UK Passport Service, which has now been renamed the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), start interviewing passport applicants to verify their identity. [5] Various degrees of concern about the scheme have been expressed by human rights lawyers, activists, security professionals and IT experts.
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