Greetings from Mexico. I have a Doubt, My friends and I are interested in investing and becoming distributors. In Mexico, there’s Xega, which they say is a brand that provides implants, but there’s no competition and it’s difficult to access. We want to distribute the brand’s chips in the area, but we don’t know how. We know it could be a great business opportunity because the implant provides security (there are many kidnappings in the area, and bringing the chip helps you be located) and protection from theft. There are a lot of interested people, but they don’t know how to access one. (Yes, there is Xega as a supplier, but the headquarters is very far away, and often implant parties and meetings are infrequent, and they don’t offer many facilities to become an independent distributor, if you know what I mean.)
The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the size and shape of a grain of rice, into clients’ bodies with a syringe. A transmitter then sends signals via satellite to pinpoint the location of a person in distress
That’s pure science fiction - a sham - say RIFD researchers and engineers in the United States. Any device that could communicate with satellites or even the local cellular network would need a battery and sizable antenna, like a cellphone, they say.
“It’s nonsense,” said Mark Corner, an RFID researcher and computer science professor at the University of Massachusetts.
Xega executives declined to respond to questions about the technical specifications of their products, citing security protocols.
Hi. I´am new here. I live in Mexico. I have a doubt; How do I become an official distributor of the brand? I have friends interested in investing, but I don’t know who to contact.
the reason you’re unable to access one is because it’s a scam. unlike hollywood movies, these small implants can’t be used that way - they don’t track. they can’t track. it’s not how they work.
Wired has a bit more info
A transmitter in the chip communicates with a small GPS-enabled box that is carried by the client, says Xega. And it is the box that reports the GPS coordinates to the company when the panic button is pressed. It’s a bit similar to GPS-tracking systems currently being marketed to pet owners.
What’s not clear is how the embedded chip helps in the process or what will happen if the kidnappers throw the GPS box out.
Xega, which is based in the city of Quererato in Mexico, originally designed GPS systems to track stolen vehicles. But after a company owner was kidnapped in 2001, it adapted the technology to track people.
Security theater at its worst.
Even IF the technology existed for this, which it most assuredly does not, since the U.S. government would have them in wide use by now, the use of these to fight kidnapping would simply cause butchering if kidnapping victims in order to retrieve potential implants. Sounds like a terribly risky plan.
https://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Microchip-implants-bring-security-to-Mexico-1662414.php https://youtu.be/YI9a8YEfwRU?si=NY7MOsZRlHl0-pZl https://youtu.be/i7qQaYAxxD4?si=dB5Wwn2PEoHM-hPl www.noroeste.com.mx/nacional/tienen-chip-antisecuestro-2-mil-mexicanos-JUNO81685 It’s strange that you say that, because there are 2,300 people who have already had the Verichip implanted in Mexico. Although it has another name, “Anti-Kidnapping Chip,” for now, only upper-class people have it.
Among them, 160 people from high-ranking government positions. There’s even an old commercial (and other ads, although they’re very few; I’ve been able to find these so far). If you ask me, there are people here interested, mostly from the middle and upper classes. Other people in Mexico (generally from higher social classes) have gone to implant parties in the United States where they’ve had the chips implanted. However, it’s still difficult to obtain. (There have been rumors about implant parties in the north of the country and in the capital, but they’re sporadic events attended by few people yet, and there’s little information.)I was in contact with those links a while ago, and they’re still working, but they don’t provide addresses or contact information, and if they do, they don’t answer messages or the number has already been canceled.
There may be 2,300 people that have been mislead.
If they have a Verichip, this is:
how it worked
Implantation:
The chip was surgically implanted under the skin, typically on the back of the arm.
Identification:
When scanned by a reader, the chip transmitted a unique serial number.
Information access:
This ID could then be used to link to a secure database containing personal information, such as medical history.
Limited range:
The chip required a close-range scan and was not designed for long-distance tracking
Conclusion
So that is “tracking” in the same sense as Pet “Tracking”
You know where that pet is when it is scanned by somebody within a couple of centimeters of a scanner.
Your toaster isn’t going to turn bread into spaghetti. And rfid implants like a barcode…isntt traceable.
From the Wired article I posted earlier, it sounds like the implant is likely just a basic NFC or LF chip that is scanned by the worn GPS-enabled external device. It is the GPS-enabled device that is receiving GPS signals to determine its location, then sending that location back to a server via mobile (or possibly satellite).
It is no more useful then just wearing the GPS-enabled external device. At most, “scanning the chip” would just provide some kind of identity or authorization.
It’s less useful actually