Australia: Authorities Deactivate Transit Pass Implanted in Biohacker's Hand

The New South Wales government has deactivated a transit pass that one of its users implanted into his own body — a decision the self-proclaimed biohacker says he’ll fight in court.

The biohacker, Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow, who is the co-founder of a biohacking space in Sydney called BioFoundry, removed the chip from the transit card, encased it in plastic and had a piercing expert embed it in his left hand this past April, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Authorities in New South Wales, a state on the eastern coast of Australia that includes Sydney, where Meow-Meow lives, immediately vowed to cancel the card, citing rules that cards couldn’t be tampered with. 

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