Personal data transmitter (Earth-5875)



"Cars won't drive you, hospitals won't treat you, the automatic door at the grocery store won't slide open for you, and the cashier won't take your money. You don't know what it's like to be off the grid."

- - Sophia Bossedon

A personal data transmitter (PDT) is a personal locator surgically implanted on the body of all human inhabitants of the Unified Earth Government, whose main purpose is the rapid location of civilians, criminals and other elements anywhere within 30 kilometers. Among the tracked information, there are bank accounts and personal identity.

In addition, all illegal immigrants are considered "off the grid"; because they do not have PDTs, they cannot keep bank accounts, and many resort to illegal activities to survive and resort to other currencies outside of credits.

During the Battle of Paraíso, the inhabitants of Hadley, Paraíso, were located by the UNSC Marine 2nd Battalion Bravo Team on the colony's Atmosphere Processing Plant, only for the Marines to discover they had been cocooned into xenomorph hives. During the Battle of Earth, Commissioner Norman Kinsler used the mass hysteria and panic to shut down all of New Mombasa's PDT systems, attempting to use the lack of surveillance to rape Sadie Endesha, only to be stopped by his own subordinate, Mike Branley.