October 22, 2004
RFID Passports
The U.S. State Department will soon add RFID chips to all U.S. passports, enabling remote reading of identifying information at borders around the world.
From the Wired News:
But civil libertarians and some technologists say the chips are actually a boon to identity thieves, stalkers and commercial data collectors, since anyone with the proper reader can download a person's biographical information and photo from several feet away.
"Even if they wanted to store this info in a chip, why have a chip that can be read remotely?" asked Barry Steinhardt, who directs the American Civil Liberty Union's Technology and Liberty program. "Why not require the passport be brought in contact with a reader so that the passport holder would know it had been captured? Americans in the know will be wrapping their passports in aluminum foil."
Read more: American Passports to Get Chipped
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