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Re: [privacy] Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:03:40 -0500

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:58:12 EST, "Richard M. Smith" said:

The problem with the card, Schwartz said, is that it uses a standard that
wasn't meant to track people. "It's not made as an identity document," he
said. "The technology they're using was designed to track goods -- pallets
of toilet paper at Wal-Mart," he said.

That's only a problem if you see it as a problem....

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