13
May
2020
The Swedish microchip program was a 2017 pilot by train company SJ allowing people who already had chips to store electronic tickets, not a government mandate for free rides.
So, the way he tells this story about Sweden, there's an arrangement where if you agree to take an implantable microchip, you can get free bus rides. What he's referring to is a pilot program that a train company called SJ tried in 2017, where people could use implantable chips to store their electronic train tickets on this chip.