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by RpFLCL 2018 days ago
As someone who values their privacy and anonymity I don't like this. I don't want records or identifiers embedded in my body, full stop.

> the medical record is stored and controlled by the patient within the patient’s skin

Can the patient remove or alter it? If not I don't feel like it's accurate to say they "control" it.

>the patches deliver a pattern in the skin that is invisible to the naked eye but can be scanned with a smartphone that has the infrared filter removed.

So any attacker can pull up your vaccination history (in theory your identity depending on what is imprinted in the dots) with a drive-by attack that requires nothing more sophisticated than a cellphone camera? That is exactly the opposite of how I want my medical records secured.

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> I don't want records or identifiers embedded in my body, full stop.

I don't want medical records stored in a place I can't control.

I've already read here that whatever you disclose with a request to be off the records, goes IN the record with a note "the patient said that was to be off the record"

So I don't play along.

No identifiers in your body? Is there a pill to take to erase one's DNA?