Chips: High Tech Aids or Tracking Tools?

By TODD LEWAN, AP National Writer, Technology / Hi Tech

A VeriChip, held by pair of tweezers, is display in this May 10, 2002, file photo in Boca Raton, Fla. Proponents say the chips when implanted in people offer security and medical identification benefits. Detractors worry that abuse of the chips will eliminate personal privacy in the digital age. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)

(AP) -- CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself - until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.

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