April 19, 2006
Rfid-enabled travel cards pose privacy threats
By 2008, if officials at the Department of Homeland Security are to be believed, travelers to Canada and Mexico will use wallet-size identity cards tagged with RFID tags. A senior official at the department disclosed this while speaking at a smart card conference in Arlington. Already, the department operates the biometrics program for visitors to the United States.
This has raised the hackles of privacy activists who are not wrong in saying that this was the traveler's data stored in the tag could be read by rogue RFID readers in any public place while in transit.
Via Zdnet
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