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Ärende: VeriKid - CHIP
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IN THE NEWS - ONE YEAR AGO

    About the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip is injected
    beneath the skin and transmits a unique 125-kilohertz radio
    frequency signal.  SOLUSAT, the Mexican distributor of  the
    VeriChip, is marketing the device as an emergency ID tag
    under its new VeriKid program.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60771,00.html

   Tracking Junior With a Microchip
   by Julia Scheeres

   Oct. 10, 2003

   A Mexican company has launched a service to implant microchips in
   children as an anti-kidnapping device.

   SOLUSAT, the Mexican distributor of the VeriChip -- a rice-size
   microchip that is injected beneath the skin and transmits a
   125-kilohertz radio frequency signal -- is marketing the device
   as an emergency ID under its new VeriKid program.

   The service has even garnered the backing of Mexico's National
   Foundation of Investigations of Robbed and Missing Children,
   which has agreed to promote the service.

   According to a press release announcing the collaboration, the
   foundation has estimated that 133,000 Mexican children have been
   abducted over the past five years.

   Foundation officials did not respond to interview requests.

   A SOLUSAT executive said the terms of the agreement are still being
   hashed out.

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