ACLU, EFF don't want U.S. passports to have RFID tags embedded [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

And EFF:
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/RFID/RFID_passport.pdf

-Declan

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RFID Passports - ACLU comments
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:22:24 -0400
From: Stanley, Jay <jstanley () aclu org>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

Declan,

Politech readers may be interested in comments we filed yesterday 
formally opposing the State Department's proposed rule creating 
RFID-laden “electronic passports."  We discuss the various risks of 
these IDs, including eavesdropping, skimming, cloning, chip failure, etc.

The comments are online at www.aclu.org/passports.

Best,

Jay


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Jay Stanley
Communications Director, Technology and Liberty Program
American Civil Liberties Union
202-715-0818
Fax 202-546-0738
www.aclu.org/privacy

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