State Department rolls out citizen issuance though controversy still surrounds the project

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor

In spite of a summer of criticism that included a prominent researcher’s much-talked-about EU e-passport cloning demo, the U.S. State Department issued the first e-Passports and e-Passport readers.
Production began in late August at the Colorado Passport Agency and will expand to 17 other passport-issuing facilities throughout the United States in coming months.