It's 10 p.m. - Do you know where your children are?

A New York TV station asks that question every night just before they start the news. For parents in Mexico, it could now be a lot easier to answer. Here's a press release about an "exciting child safeguard program" that will insert RFID chips into kids' arms. so that if the kids are kidnapped, their parents can find them by tracking the chip's radio signal. [Correction -- as Kelly so nicely points out, the chip only works if it gets scanned.]



Finding missing children sounds like a nice idea, but an FAQ on the company's website gives an idea of the big picture:

We are promoting VeriChip as a universal means of identification. We expect it to be used in a variety of applications including financial and transportation security, residential and commercial building access, military and government security.

Sounds like they're less concerned with finding kids than being able to track the entire population's movements somewhere down the line. Think I'd prefer to stay chip-free, thanks...