RFID are Radio Frequency ID chips. The plan is to introduce them to American passports, so as to provide a quick and easy way of verifying the ID of the passport holder, along with any information about them.
The issue with this method is that many people will not know who is watching them. It could simply be the government keeping watch, or it could be a criminal intent on stealing your indentity, someone curious about your citizenship. Either way, it provides a method of checking the private information of someone without any knowledge of the person knowing, which violates human rights. Rumors of the US government setting up a protection program against the theft of private information, however no precautions have been taken to shield the passport from anything else, such as a more complicated decrypting program of the data stored on the chip, as it has already been broken as someone has been able to clone the information.
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Have you got sources to support your statements about the chips already been broken into? sounds interesting.
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