RFID Passports Less Reliable than Traditional Passports
From EPIC:
A document obtained by EPIC from the State Department reveals that 2004 government tests found passports with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that are read 27% to 43% less successfully than the previous Machine Readable Zone technology (two lines of text printed at the bottom of the first page of a passport).
I’ve written about RFID passports before.
Tim • November 20, 2006 12:51 PM
It’s nice to see our government does not allow facts to get in the way of implementing a pet project, no matter how ill-conceived.