Transit Worker ID Card Stalled Because of Privacy, Tech Problems
The rocky launch of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential threatens to delay what Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff declared his highest priority after the Dubai port controversy in February: starting by year's end to screen the backgrounds of 750,000 U.S. workers at critical sea, air and land transportation facilities, and issuing them microchip-equipped ID cards. More broadly, the long-overdue ID program foreshadows concerns that hundreds of millions of Americans soon may encounter as the government starts issuing similarly equipped driver's licenses, passports, federal-worker badges and immigrant-guest-worker cards in coming years.
Transit-Worker ID Program Stalled, Washington Post, September 17, 2006.
