e-Passports — still not immune to identity theft or cloning
E-Passports, or biometric passports, have been touted as milestone in border security. However between problems of protecting the data contained in the embedded RFID chips and the possibility of cloning the embedded chip data to create new passports, there are still hurdles to overcome.
Electronic Pickpocket Stoppers
I found this in the Style Section of the Washington Post, but it may have been more at home in the travel section. These RFID chips are being put into new passports. It is something to think about and the crux of privacy conerns.
No passport required, yet
U.S. citizens won’t need a passport to cross over land into Canada or Mexico until the middle of next year, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday.
Should passport info be tightly held?
You don’t have to be a candidate for the highest office in America to have your privacy breached. The practice of hiring private contractors to aid the passport application crunch may be putting sensitive information about Americans at risk.