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While the idea of putting RFID chips into US passports sounds, on first blush, like an interesting idea (providing remote reading and confirmation of passport contents), the implication — that folks who want to target US citizens for kidnapping or killing could also scan a crowd for any Americans<\/a> that weren’t obvious by their clothing or speaking styles — is a lot less attractive.<\/p>\n

In short, an RFID chip would be sort of the high tech equivalent of an American flag — or a bulls-eye — over the head of anyone carrying one.<\/p>\n

Swell.<\/p>\n

(And that’s just a fraction of the problem. Would you hand out all the info on your passport — name, address, phone number, date of birth, etc. — to everyone you meet? Why, then, would you let your passport do so for you? Can you say “fraud” and “identity theft” and “jacking up prices for the silly American tourists who just walked in”?)<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the idea of putting RFID chips into US passports sounds, on first blush, like an interesting idea (providing remote reading and confirmation of passport contents), the implication — that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6763,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/05\/no_passport_req.html","url_meta":{"origin":7336,"position":0},"title":"No Passport required","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Jan-05 11:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"You know it's a bad sign for a technology when the online list of customers vanishes. 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