According to Wired News the government is ignoring reports regarding security concerns for RFID chips and going ahead with plans to install these in passports. Data can be read from twenty feet away allowing law enforcement to scan a crowd while walking through it. Furthermore, RFID presents the potential for hackers to skim the cards information aggravating problems with identity theft.
Most chilling however is:
Personally I think this all sounds a little big brother-ish and I hope that civil liberty unions take up the flag on this one. The potential for abuse is too great. What do you think?
Most chilling however is:
"...When customs agents begin reading the new PASS cards at the border, the travel data will be stored for up to 50 years, will be shared within Homeland Security and will be made available to law enforcement groups, both domestically and internationally, according to DHS' own privacy assessment (.pdf)."Read the whole article here.
Personally I think this all sounds a little big brother-ish and I hope that civil liberty unions take up the flag on this one. The potential for abuse is too great. What do you think?
