[privacy] Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:58:12 EST, "Richard M. Smith" said:

> The problem with the card, Schwartz said, is that it uses a standard that
> wasn't meant to track people. "It's not made as an identity document," he
> said. "The technology they're using was designed to track goods -- pallets
> of toilet paper at Wal-Mart," he said.

That's only a problem if you see it as a problem....
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