Get Your US Passport While it Still Cold
The U.S. State Department is exploring technology, which may include RFID or digital biometric information that would be incorporated into U.S. citizen passports. Privacy advocates are raising awareness about proposals to adopt digital technology for application on the next generation of U.S. passports. It is anticipated that by the end of 2005 U.S. passports that are issued will include a chip that contains the holders: name, birth date and issuing office, as well as a "biometric" identifier_ a photo of the holders' face.
E-passports worry privacy advocates, Post-Gazette, November 19, 2004
