Passport Chip Could Attract High-Tech Muggers

Orangez writes "Wired.com reports that 'business travel groups, security experts and privacy advocates are looking to derail a government plan to insert remotely readable chips in American passports, calling the chips homing devices for high-tech muggers, identity thieves and even terrorists.' and that 'The 64-KB chips will include the information from the photo page of the passport, including name, date of birth and a digitized form of the passport picture.'"

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Re:When will people realise that remotely readable

[Anonymous Coward]

identity is becoming increasingly important

That's the BIGGEST LIE created by the US government. With globalization, identity in international travel is becoming LESS important every day. Look at EU, before you had to show a passport when travelling between any country, now you can travel around many European countries freely. And with more information being shared between law enforcement groups, criminals can't run and hide in another country as easily so who cares if they cross borders. Eventually, there would be NO need to show an ID to travel between countries, except for the country that is becoming more closed than even late 20th century China, i.e. USA...