Former Wisconsin Governor and Bush-era Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who is reportedly getting in the race for the Senate seat of retiring Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl (D), was once an advocate of microchipping human beings, The Huffington Post reports. Thompson once sat on the board of VeriChip, a company that makes small, implantable microchips (also known as RFIDs) that can be used for a variety of purposes.VeriChip, now known as PositiveID, provides “unique health and security identification tools to protect consumers and businesses” and lays claim to the “first and only FDA-cleared implantable microchip for patient identification.” Thompson joined the board in 2005, but left to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, according to The Huffington Post.
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