OK, I'm just going to give my thoughts and opinions on the matter. First off, my daddy is a gun toting, government loathing, loony (Love him as I do). He has grenades in the house for the day that Big Brother comes a knocking. I am well versed in conspiracy theory.
That being said I'm not too concerned about mandatory microchipping coming to fruition, animals or humans, especially being implemented in 3 years. There are several reasons for this. One, the massive scale! Two, the cost. Three, the follow up/enforcement. And, when dealing with tracing ect on humans, the compromise of anything man made, especially when organics work just as well.
Massive Scale:
Can you even CONTEMPLATE, how many people live in America? Yeah, we all can spit out numbers but we can't comprehend how big that number really is. I live in New Hampshire, which is in a group of small states called New England. I'm staggered by the amount of people who live here, and in reality, all of New England could fit in Kansas! They say that for all the dogs in the US to have homes each and every person (Babies included) would have to have 14 dogs! So take the incomprehensib le number of people who live here, multiply that by 14 and you have JUST the amount of dogs that have to be chipped. That's not including the livestock you guys are talking about, which we consume constantly. It's just too big!
Cost:
I know to get Araby and Hobo chipped and registered (Nee is chipped and registered to his breeder) it was about $120 for both. I'm sure the government would get a bulk discount and all, but the cost just to PERFORM the inital chipping, not to mention the resources needed for follow up is astronomical. Yeah I know this is the government who spent $2,000 on a friggin toilet seat. But a crapper cushion is much more forgivable than a privacy invasion act.
Follow Up/Enforcement:
Impossible. They can't even enforce dog licensing laws they already have! I know this first hand as Matt is immensely tarded, and didn't license Araby and Hobo for SIX MONTHS after they were due. We got letters informing us of late fees (Which he hid so I wouldn't get mad), but never had anyone call us, show up to the door, threaten to take the dogs away, anything. Sanity isn't even licensed yet (Because I'm waiting for him to get fixed, not only because of the initial $3.50 savings, but because they charge an aggression fee for every month the dog isn't fixed and it goes down in the books that they're an aggressive dog because they're in tact) and you know what? No one has done anything! When he gets his rabies done, they ship a copy of the certificate to the town hall, so the town knows he's there! But they haven't done anything! If they don't have the time/manpower to follow up on simplistic procedures like this, how the **** are they going to do something as intensive as a shipping/tracking program?
With regards to tracking in humans:
I was talking to a friend who was telling me about how in Carolina they've been trying to do a mandatory fingerprinting, DNA sample on all newborns because of the amounts of kidnappings that go on in the states. They haven't been able to implement it in ONE state, because of the uproar. If they can't do something as simple and inobtrusive in one state I can't imagine them trying to to do something more complicated and intrusive over the whole country, especially when you consider the more liberal states!
I'm not one who likes to predict the future. 50 years ago they thought by now we'd be tooling around in flying cars and taking vacations to the moon. All we've done is create a scooter that saves you the effort of walking a few blocks. However, I do think eventually, I don't know how far down the road, but eventually, we will be more integrated into a "Network" for lack of a better term. We already partially are, with everything being electronic and such, ie: Debit cards ect. However I do NOT think that Microchipping will play a factor in this. Reason being, we all are born with ready made unique identifiers;fnger prints, retinas, and the like. These are things that can't be altered (Without severe pain and complications).
A friend of mine went to a college with brilliant people. One of his friends is a hacker. Hecan take digital sereal numbers and alter them. For one of his classes he took a microchipped cat, and altered the numbers it read so when looked up in the registration it was different breeds of dogs in different locations. Every step we take in technology there is someone figuring out how to use it to their advantage. The less man made implements in an equation, the fewer ways it can go wrong. We all know of dogs with microchips that migrated, or just didn't read. I mean God, if they did choose to microchip people against their will, I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to find someone who'll remove it!
This all being said, I understand your concerns. I really do. I just don't think that this is something to be concerned about.