Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

ID industry fighting Big Brother image

Monday, July 14, 2008

Biometric and smart card companies aim to educate lawmakers on how the technologies can be privacy enhancing and not privacy invasive

RFID. It’s hard to believe that four little letters can cause individuals to imagine such evil things. Mention RFID and people envision Big Brother or another type of all-seeing specter watching their every move. Biometrics evoke a similar fear among many individuals.

It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when the controversy over identification technology began. Some Web sites point to high-tech identification technology and biometrics being foretold in the Bible and make a connection to the “Mark of the Beast.”

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Initially deployed in Terminal three, but expected to be rolled out throughout the airport, the system will read the passports and check the facial image and iris against a watch list. The entire process takes about 15 seconds.

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CBP denies report

A Canadian man uses a scanned image of his passport from his iPad to get past Customer and Border Protection officials, according to a report from the AP.

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