The original declaration was that: "All U.S. passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced",CNET News reports."Sweeping new State Department regulations issued Tuesday say that passports issued after that time will have tiny radio frequency ID (RFID) chips that can transmit personal information including the name,nationality,sex,date of birth,place of birth and digitized photograph of the passport holder.Eventually,the government contemplates adding additional digitized data such as "fingerprints or iris scans."
Now...after quite an uproar, the State Department agreed to rethink that plan -- and have now come out with a renewed plan that seems much more reasonable, though not perfect.
They're going to include some shielding technology on the outside of the passport so that it will be nearly impossible to read the data from the passport while it's closed, along with "Basic Access Control" that gives the passport holder the ability to decide when and how to let the data out.
Read full at News.com which also includes a great visual network displaying passport RFID connections.
No comments:
Post a Comment