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The prospect of governments forcing citizens to undergo microchip implants for tracking or other purposes is of perennial concern to the conspiracy-minded, so much so that any mention of chip implants in the news is enough to spark apocalyptic howls. Consider this August 2016 item out of Australia: Australians Embracing Super-Human Microchip Technology. It's a fluff piece about a Sydney biohacking entrepreneur named Shanti Korporaal whose business is arranging for people to get microchip implants if they want them — as in, voluntarily. There's nothing in the original article about government programs, or mandated chipping, or anything of the kind, yet this is how the same story was reworked for Internet consumption by a web site called Organic & Healthy: Again, there's nothing in the original report, nor any additional information provided in the reworked version, to support the claim that Australia is microchipping its public. To the contrary, all that has been reported is that a few Australian techno-hipsters have begun microchipping themselves on the assumption that this will one day be a useful technology. For that matter, Australia isn't even the first country where self-chipping has taken place; it's been going on in the U.S. for years. Australia has not begun microchipping its public. The claim that it has is, at best, misinformation and, at worst, a lie. And it's also not true that, as claimed in the example at the head of this page, NBC predicted that all Americans will receive a microchip implant in 2017.
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