Mi chiedo le implicazioni per la privacy... Orwell ha
solo sbagliato decennio...
All U.S. passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced.
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."
Over the last year, opposition
to the idea of implanting RFID chips in passports has grown amidst worries
that identity thieves could snatch personal information out of the air simply
by aiming a high-powered antenna at a person or a vehicle carrying a passport.
Out of the 2,335 comments on the plan that were received by the State
Department this year, 98.5 percent were negative. The objections mostly
focused on security and privacy concerns.
Fonte: RFID Chips in New US Passports Starting Next Year