Mexico's attorney general and more than 100 workers in his office have had Verichip brand ID microchips implanted under their skin for "security."

The chip was originally developed to track livestock animals and pets, and now Mexicans in the federal prosecutor's office have had microchips implanted, according to Antonio Aceves, general director of Solusat, the company that distributes Verichip microchips in Mexico.

The rice-grain sized chips were implanted in Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha and 160 of his employees. Macedo said the chips were required to enter a new federal anti-crime information center, so the choice was obviously -- get a chip implant or lose your job,

Solusat's Aceves said the company wants to provide Mexican government bureaucrats with chip implants that can track their location anywhere and at any time, but this Verichip technology is still under development.

The chips, manufactured by Florida's VeriChip Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc(ADSX), use RFID technology can be read by a scanner.