Sunday, March 12, 2006

Rhianna is glad she traveled abroad prior to RFID embedded passports

RFID embedded passports are going to make people feel like robots at ports of entry plus the radio frequencies can broadcast anyone's whereabouts.

MSN Money - Financial Times Business News: US issues biometric passports despite concerns

"Civil liberties and privacy groups are uneasy about the formation of biometric information databases on US citizens and concerned that identity-theft rings, foreign government agents or even terrorist groups could 'skim' information from the RFID chips or 'eavesdrop' on the communication between official readers and the microchips.

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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."

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