Roughly 10 years ago, a secondary school in the United Kingdom (UK) was testing a new way to take attendance: microchips were embedded in uniforms worn by students that registered their arrival in class on a teacher’s computer.
 
Since then, microchip technology has advanced. The number of potential ways that it can be used appears endless. Among the latest is hospital administrators in Northern Ireland who are considering microchip implants in nurses’ uniforms to track how many times they wash their hands.
 
While employers around the world have been inserting microchips in uniforms for ...