British companies are planning to microchip employees using similar technology to that currently used in pet passports.
Swedish tech firm Biohax has said it is in talks with a number of UK firms to tag their workers like they are dogs.
The firm told The Sunday Telegraph that its technology, which involves injecting a microchip the size of a grain of rice under the skin, can be used by companies trying to stop staff accessing secure areas.
Biohax founder Jowan Österlund said: “These companies have sensitive documents they are dealing with.
“The chips would allow them to set restrictions for whomever.
Mr Österlund also suggested that they could be used to buy food in canteens or access company printers.
A UK based global accountancy and auditing firm are believed to be among the potential clients.
But campaigners say they chips are unethical and could even be hacked.
In 2010 Reading University academic Mark Gasson, demonstrated the dangers by redesigning a chip implanted in his hand to pass on a virus to any computer it interacted with that was connected to the internet.
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He told the BBC: “It was actually a surprisingly violating experience, I became a danger to the building’s systems.
“Implantable technology can’t be easily removed or in this case even switched off,” Gasson says. “I felt like the implant was a part of my body, so there was a real feeling of helplessness when things weren’t right.”
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