With the federal government planning to implement RFID tagging within passport, a RFID chip vendor On Track Innovations has been given the “green light” by the court to resume testing RFID chips, as a provider of this technology, after the company issued a lawsuit.
The New Jersey based company will continue were it previously left off testing the RFID chips, after the Government’s Printing Office rejected On Track Innovations’ technology to produce the chips
In the beginning a hand full of vendors were selected to test and produce the chips, and On Track Innovations was not one of them. However, the federal government decided to reconsider some of the rejected vendors, and On Track Innovations was once again considered and discarded. . The company sued the GPO in small claims court and was given permission to test their RFID chip technology.
Many analysts are still concerned that the use of RFID enabled passports will give the government the ability to spy on its citizens.
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