It's For Your Own Good... Really

Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield is starting a pilot programme to insert microchips into 280 patients with chronic conditions. The company says that the chips will be used to give casualty ward staff access to the patient's medical information if he is unable to communicate.

Really. That's all. Won't be used for anything else. Not for spying on people or anything like that. Not ever. Nothing to do with the boys on the telescreen monitors needing a break. Trust us. Would we lie?