… the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has just given approval to Proteus Digital Health for the use of a tiny microchip to be placed in medication taken orally.
The supposed purpose of the microchip embedded in the medication is to “improve the effectiveness of existing pharmaceutical treatments.” If that were only the case, then I would not question it at all, but when you read what they really say on the company’s website, it causes me concern about who is getting what information about my body and what it will be used for:
“Digital Medicines are the same pharmaceuticals you take today, with one small change: each pill also contains a tiny sensor that can communicate, via our digital health feedback system, vital information about your medication-taking behaviors and how your body is responding.”
Please take note that these chips will be monitoring when you take the medication, how much you take and how effective it is. Then it will be reporting this information back to someone who will then have that information about you and your body. Someone we don’t know will be receiving our personal information and sharing it with whom?
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