no RFID chips in new US Passports

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Alexandros Labrinidis <labrinid () cs pitt edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:44:19 -0500
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: [for IP] no RFID chips in new US Passports

instead the passports will have "contactless chips." :-)

for IP, if you wish.

best regards,
alex
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RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment [WIRED News, March 29, 2005]

Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S.
government will not use radio-frequency identification tags in the
passports it issues to millions of Americans in the coming years.

Instead, the government will use "contactless chips."

The distinction is part of an effort by the Department of Homeland
Security and one of its RFID suppliers, Philips Semiconductors, to
brand RFID tags in identification documents as "proximity chips,"
"contactless chips" or "contactless integrated circuits" -- anything
but "RFID."

The Homeland Security Department is playing word games to dodge the
privacy debate raging over RFID tags, which will eventually replace
bar-code labels on consumer goods, said privacy rights advocates this
week.

....

Full story at http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67025,00.html

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  Alexandros Labrinidis    | web:    http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~labrinid
  Assistant Professor      | email:  labrinid () cs pitt edu
  Dept of Computer Science | office: 6105 Sennott Square
  University of Pittsburgh | phone:  412-624-8843


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