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Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 50 days ago http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=US-Government-Starts-Selling-Its-
| Don't say you haven't been warned: In their book Who's Watching You?: The Chilling Truth about the State, Surveillance, and Personal Freedom, Mick Farren and John Gibb warn of the dangers of RFID chips and how the government and its corporate shills will try to sell them to you on the basis of increased convenience. Well here they come:
The State Department will soon begin production of an electronic passport card that security specialists and members of Congress fear will be vulnerable to alteration or counterfeiting.
The agency has contracted with L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. to produce electronic-passport cards as a substitute for booklet passports for use by Americans who travel frequently by road or sea to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
About the size of a credit card, the electronic-passport card displays a photo of the user and a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip containing data about the user. The State Department announced recently that it will begin producing the cards next month and issue the first ones in July. ... |
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