The U.S. State Department on Monday approved a new type of passport for U.S. citizens traveling to Mexico, the Caribbean, Bermuda and Canada. The new “passport cards” use wireless technology that allows them to be read at a distance (up to 20 feet away), rather than being put through a scanner as with current passports.
Associated Press reports that privacy advocates expressed concerns about the new passport cards, saying that they’re not secure enough and potentially could result in identify theft or other privacy invasions.
One such advocate, Ari Schwartz at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a D.C-based advocacy group, said the technology used in the passport cards is better suited to tracking inventory than people.
4 comments:
Just like the oyster cards in London
Just like the oyster cards in London
Man, this sucks. Do you know how easy its going to be for someone to steal you idnentiy?
Just the other day the UK gov gave away millions of personal details, i can imagine it next, you arrive at the border and find out your citizenship doesnt exist, in fact your watned for murder or something.
Computers fk up all the time, so why would you trust them. Its like all the nightmares Hollywood tried to warn us about are about to come true, all at the same time.
PSSSST... what to buy a passport?
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