All US passports to be RFID chipped
Silicon.com
10/26/05
All US passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. Sweeping new State Department regulations issued on Tuesday say passports issued after that time will have tiny RFID chips that can transmit personal information including the name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth and digitised photograph of the passport holder. Eventually, the government contemplates adding additional digitised data such as 'fingerprints or iris scans'...
http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39153665,00.htm
Homeland Security implements rule on digitized passport photos
Gov Exec
10/26/05
A Homeland Security Department rule that went into effect Wednesday requires visitors from certain countries to carry passports with digital photos and punishes carriers that transport people to the United States without the new passports. Under the rule, the 27 countries that are part of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program must issue their citizens passports with digitized photographs, rather than photos that are glued or laminated onto the document. The requirement comes as part of U.S. efforts to crack down on the use of fraudulent passports and close a loophole that DHS officials say could be exploited by terrorists...
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1005/102605c1.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
10/26/05
All US passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. Sweeping new State Department regulations issued on Tuesday say passports issued after that time will have tiny RFID chips that can transmit personal information including the name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth and digitised photograph of the passport holder. Eventually, the government contemplates adding additional digitised data such as 'fingerprints or iris scans'...
http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39153665,00.htm
Homeland Security implements rule on digitized passport photos
Gov Exec
10/26/05
A Homeland Security Department rule that went into effect Wednesday requires visitors from certain countries to carry passports with digital photos and punishes carriers that transport people to the United States without the new passports. Under the rule, the 27 countries that are part of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program must issue their citizens passports with digitized photographs, rather than photos that are glued or laminated onto the document. The requirement comes as part of U.S. efforts to crack down on the use of fraudulent passports and close a loophole that DHS officials say could be exploited by terrorists...
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1005/102605c1.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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