November 22, 2004
* New Passports With E-Chips Raise Issues of Privacy and ID Theft

As a follow-up to my May 17 posting, Biometric ID Will Be Added to US Passports, today's AP story, Electronic Passports Might Not Measure Up, details additional concerns that the information chips under development subject the passport holder to an ID theft scam that is simple to perpetrate.

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