It seems that the United States’ RFID Passports (which has privacy advocates scared) is finally becoming a reality. According to MSNBC:
The US has begun issuing passports that contain biometric information stored on remotely readable microchips, in spite of lingering security and privacy concerns.
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The passport chips contain all the personal information printed inside the passport, as well as a digitised photograph of the passport holder. At ports of entry, scanners will access these data and compare them with a national database for identity verification.
The new “E-Passports” have so far been issued only to US diplomats, as part of a pilot programme conducted in collaboration with Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. They will be introduced nationwide by October.
Is our government this dense?!? I mean come on…a security firm already demonstrated that they were able to crack the encryption on the passport prototypes. October will be a sad month for us all if the US keeps to its deadline.
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4 responses to “RFID Passport Pilot Test”
I just got me passport today, thankfully there is no RFID! Even better is that it is valid until 2016 so I’m clear until then…
SWEET! Now I can steal people’s identity from across the room!
If you ever get in trouble just say “someone must have scanned my passport and stolen my identity!”
I major problem here is that no matter what our laws say, you are guilty until proven innocent in modern US society. If you were accused of the crime and in fact had been victim of identity theft, most people in the community would consider that you getting off on a technicality, but were still guilty of whatever you didn’t do…
Is is possible to start some type of class-action lawsuit against this?
If you do any research about this, the passport agency asked for public comments about this last year, and 98.5% came back negative. isn’t the US government a democracy? What happened to BY THE PEOPLE???? it’s blindingly clear that THE PEOPLE don’t want this!!!! 98.5%, if that’s not an adequate majority, what the F is?
Anyone know how to start a class-action lawsuit?