Security that gets under your skin.

• Position: TECHNOLOGY - Transmitter chip - Brief article

Driven by fear, some Mexicans are paying $4,000 to have tiny transmitter chips implanted in their bodies. Last year 751 kidnappings occurred in Mexico, according to official statistics cited by Reuters. The transmitter chip, designed by Xega, a Mexican security firm, is injected under the client's skin with a syringe and transmits signals to a global-positioning device carried by the client. Xega says a satellite can then help...