Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

CIO July 1, 2005 Thomas Wailgum	Is Big Brother Coming to Your Wallet? Despite privacy worries, the march is on toward putting RFIDs in individuals' wallets, whether or not they want them. Whenever companies decide to deploy RFIDs containing personal data, CIOs will have to figure out what's going to be done with the data.
InternetNews April 4, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Privacilla: RFID For Goods, Not People A conservative think tank came out against the U.S. proposal to place radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in all citizens' passports.
InternetNews September 25, 2009	DHS Privacy Report Downplays Laptop Searches The Department of Homeland Security brushes off criticism from civil liberties groups in 99-page report to Congress.
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Tim Gray	E-Passports Will be a Reality in 2006 Americans holding U.S. passports issued after October 2006 will carry embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside the documents, according to the U.S. State Department.
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 Seth Porges	RFID Tags: Everywhere at Once RFID tags are showing up in everything from running shoes to passports. But are they making you safer or turning you into a target?
InternetNews October 23, 2006 Roy Mark	U.S. E-Passports Hitting Market Four years in the making, RFID-embedded passports meeting milestones.
InternetNews June 22, 2005 Roy Mark	E-Passport Progress Still Stymied? Lawmakers lashed out today at Bush administration officials for their latest delay in implementing biometric passports.
InternetNews December 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	EPassports Could Have Blocking Mechanism Late last week, the ACLU accused the U.S. government of rushing the rollout of insecure, RFID-enabled passports in hopes of creating a de facto global identification standard that could be used for surveillance.
Reason March 2005 Julian Sanchez	No Passport to Privacy Travelers get chipped: In October the Government awarded contracts to produce a new generation of smart passports embedded with biometric RFID chips capable of transmitting data to readers dozens of feet away.
InternetNews October 26, 2006 Roy Mark	Most Countries Meet E-Passport Deadline Only three Visa Waiver Program countries failed to meet today's deadline for issuing electronic passports.
PC World February 2005 Andrew Brandt	Biometric Passports Fail Early Privacy Tests The federal Department of Homeland Security spent the past six months testing biometric passport prototypes and wants to roll out the new technology as soon as possible.
InternetNews November 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	ACLU Issues Warning on RFID Passports The American Civil Liberties Union claims the U.S. government is rushing the rollout of insecure, RFID-enabled passports in hopes of creating a de facto global identification standard.
InternetNews August 21, 2006 Roy Mark	Infineon Wins E-Passport Order German chipmaker Infineon is the winning bidder to supply security chips for the new U.S. e-passports, which the Department of State began issuing earlier this month.
Reason September 2005 Jacob Sullum	Rant: ID Card Trick Can we count on the DMV to foil terrorists? If the government can't reliably distinguish those who should get ID from those who shouldn't, how can we believe it will be worth the trouble?
InternetNews January 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Biometric Passports Face Second Test E-passports now contain security features aimed at preventing 'skimming' of data embedded on chips.
InternetNews June 1, 2004 Roy Mark	Accenture Lands Potential $10B Federal Contract Company to employ biometrics as part of Department of Homeland Defense's virtual border program.
Entrepreneur November 2007 Julie Moline	Getting a Passport Pronto When strict new cross-border rules went into effect in January, passport processing times ballooned from six weeks to 12 weeks. So what happens if you have to travel internationally and you don't have a passport?
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	Renewed Push to Collect Exit Data at Airports, Land Crossings The United States has never required foreigners to present their travel documents before leaving so authorities can't be certain who is or isn't overstaying a visa, a flaw that Congress has mandated that the executive branch remedy.
InternetNews May 31, 2006 Roy Mark	RFID as Big Brother? Please. A prominent Washington IT trade group is taking exception to a new government draft report raising privacy concerns over the use of RFID for human tracking.
InternetNews April 20, 2006 Roy Mark	U.S. Completes E-Passport Testing DHS claims data on biometric passports will be secure... GAO reports feds still not sharing electronically stored terrorism-related info... USTR leaders trade for jobs... etc.
InternetNews February 18, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	RFID is Inevitable But Dicey Burton Group says security and privacy concerns remain despite RFID momentum.
InternetNews January 14, 2005 Roy Mark	EPassport Awards More RFID Contracts The U.S. Government Printing Office has awarded four more contracts for sample RFID computer chips to be used in the 2006 launch of electronic passports.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Erico Guizzo	Loser: Britain's Identity Crisis Proposed biometric ID cards won't prevent fraud or terrorism
PC World March 23, 2007 Erik Larkin	New Credit Cards Leak Personal Info Some cards equipped with RFID chips send out names and account numbers.
InternetNews December 7, 2005 Tim Gray	Ridge: Terrorist Threats Spur Tech Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge said today ongoing terrorist threats would continue to drive science and technology innovation in the United States and in the process make a better and stronger country.
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005 Geri Smith	A Border Transformed Since 9/11, officials at the Laredo crossing have had two conflicting goals: Stop terrorists and keep trade flowing.
CIO October 29, 2014 Dunst & Brook	Confidential Business Data at Risk at the Border U.S. agents can search and seize the laptops of international travelers at the border, so take precautions to protect confidential business information
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Ed Sutherland	RFID May See 'Explosive' Growth Although tiny in size, radio frequency identification tags expect huge growth over the next five years.
InternetNews July 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Biometric Passport Program Hits Snag Lack of chips and interoperability standards force one-year extension of biometric passport compliance.
Wired May 2006 Annalee Newitz	The RFID Hacking Underground They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the RFID-hacking underground.
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.
PC Magazine July 13, 2004 Alan Cohen	No Where To Hide The average American is listed in at least 50 databases, and that's not counting government files. Do you know what's in your cyber dossier?
InternetNews July 7, 2006 Erin Joyce	The RFID Growth Conundrum Why isn't the FDA pushing harder for RFID to combat counterfeit drugs? The answer is not so simple.
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005	Quiet Teamwork on Border Safety Mexico's Geronimo Gutierrez talks about the "underestimated" Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America.
InternetNews October 3, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Arbitrary Seizure of Travelers' Laptops Ending? Fourth Amendment rights could be restored at the border.
National Defense February 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	DHS Mulls Maritime Predator as Northern Version Takes Flight The first Customs and Border Protection Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle arrived in December at Grand Forks, N.D., where it will conduct regular patrols of the northern border.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Foster & Jaeger	RFID Inside Maybe the ultimate solution, to allow accurate identification of individuals without some of the ethical issues raised by implanted radio chips, might require a different technology completely -- biometric scanners.
PC Magazine September 7, 2004 Karen Jones	New Frontiers for RFID Tags Depending on how closely you guard your privacy, RFID is either a benevolent new technology or Big Brother waiting to pounce.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Hitachi's RFID Takes a Powder Dust-sized RFID tag technology raises interesting possibilities. Is now the time for investors to buy in? Probably, but questions remain.
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Roy Mark	Privacy Groups Tag RFID ACLU, Center for Democracy and Technology push for baseline privacy legislation.
PC Magazine October 28, 2003	The Lookout: A Fix for RFID Researchers at RSA Security's lab have come up with a technique they say will eliminate many of the privacy concerns surrounding the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags.
InternetNews December 1, 2006 Erin Joyce	Katherine Albrecht, Privacy Group CASPIAN It's not as though the privacy group wants RFID banned outright. It just doesn't want to become unwitting market research subjects. Is Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering becoming the soul of RFID?
Entrepreneur October 2004 Amanda C. Kooser	Private Matters Keep an eye on new RFID privacy legislation. By staying on top of the issue now, you'll have a leg up when you implement the technology.
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Roy Mark	Biometric Passports: Not Ready for Prime Time Department of Homeland Security and State Department seek two-year extension of deadline for machine-readable passports with biometric identifiers.
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo	U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced.
BusinessWeek March 17, 2011 Jean Welsh	The Perfect Passport Case Protect your identity with a WANT Les Essentiels De La Vie passport holder.
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson	Contentious Debate Over Border Fences Won't End Soon Dormant as a national issue until late 2005, securing the southern border suddenly became an intensely debated subject and a political hot potato.
InternetNews February 6, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	The New Chip-erati Are RFID implants geek-chic or a tool of the military industrial complex?
National Defense March 2006	`Real ID' Controversy Heats Up Lines are being drawn in the battle over what new standards will be put in place when the Real ID Act of 2005 goes into effect two years from now.
The Motley Fool August 22, 2006 Tim Beyers	Feds to Feed RFID to Travelers On Monday, German chipmaker Infineon reported that its chips featuring RFID technology would be used in several million U.S. passports. Investors, take note.