The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it will start testing passports that contain RFID tags.
These RFID enabled passports have already been in use by other countries such as Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. The DHS plans to try these new passports at the San Francisco airport, where it will become the second airport, after Los Angeles International Airport, to test these new passports.
The DHS plans to have all passports embedded with RFID technology that has the person’s private records and digital photograph by October 2006.
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