Can Your Boss Force You to Get a Microchip? A New State Law Sets a Strict Legal Boundary

While no U.S. employers are forcing implants today, lawmakers say rising surveillance tools justify early action.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

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Job-creating, income-providing business owners aren’t often known as nefarious goons bent on imposing dystopian scenarios in the workplace, or wider life. But Washington State legislators are heading off any employers who eventually get dark, sci-fi ideas about organizing and monitoring their staff. This week, they passed a law banning companies from trying to stick data-transmitting microchips under employees’ skin to monitor them.

At first glance, that may sound like Washington’s progressive politicians allowed their paranoid fears to run away with them when they voted through bill HB2023. Yet that........

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