New travel document requirements for USA citizens

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: eekid () aol com [eekid () aol com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:15 PM
To: dfarber () cs cmu edu; David Farber
Subject: New travel document requirements for USA citizens

http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001371.html

"Under new regulations and procedures announced to take effect over the next month, citizens of the USA will, for the 
first time, be required to obtain USA government permission in order to return home to their own country from abroad -- 
from anywhere else in the world, by air or sea or land."


"One might argue that a passport is merely a travel document, not a form of permission. But that would be wrong. 
Because nothing in the law or the regulations for passport 
ıssuance<http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-22461.htm> (which were 
revised in November 2007), guarantees anyone a right to a passport, it is in effect a travel permit, issued at the 
government's discretion. The individualized, per-flight, advance "clearance" message is quite unambiguously a 
permission-to-travel requirement."

"As I had expected<http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001159.html> , the passport card will contain a "vicinity" RFID 
chip, i.e. a chip that can be read at longer range than the "proximity" chip in "RFID passports."
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