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New American Passports: Fears and Preferences

As early as two year ago the magazine New Scientist wrote about the negative consequences of using of radio-frequency chips, built-in civil passports for identification. The fact is that they allow to any owner of the reading machine checks up your private information, such as name and nationality, on the distance. But since the august of 2006 Department of State are being about to begin the inculcation of their plan independently from such warnings.

In case if you have never heard, we let you know that RFID chips (radio-frequency identification) keep not very bid information in few kilobits of memory and transmit this information with the help of short radio signal, when they receive "inquiry" from the reading machine.

This is an excellent technology that to mark retail goods, fixing their costs and information about delivered parcels, but when this "radio with long memory" transmits information about you or about me, it's clear that it represents absolutely the manifest threat for the confidentiality. Now a lot of people recollect suddenly about it. CNN cites words of many experts, which voices fears that ratings of American trevellers abroad can be "steal" and read on the distance, and the owner of the passport will not even know about it.

But Department of State repeats to assert that everything is ok, because they already checked up new technology, being first, who already got us passports of new standard with RFID. Interestingly and whether it is necessary to fill the Passport applications at passport registration on new technology?

Then it's possible to be true that everything is all right. Any way it's a high probability that some new firms can thrive becuase of using well-deserved technologies: a huge business are ready to appear in such field, like the defence from radio-waves of cases of passports and wallets. The precedents has already had.

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