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Fact Sheet: Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) Passport Card Technology Choice: Vicinity RFID

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No personal information would be transmitted or stored on the vicinity RFID-enabled card. The technology will transmit only a number between the card and the reader which will be matched against a DHS database. Even though no personally identifiable information will be transmitted, DHS is taking ...

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— travel.state.gov — THE U.S. PASSPORT CARD IS NOW IN PRODUCTION! U.S. Passport Card We began production of the U.S.... Passport Card on July 14, 2008. To date, we have issued over 700,000 U.S. Passport Cards. Applications for the U.S. Passport Card are being processed in ... (more) U.S. Passport Card

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Researcher Clones RFID Passports While Driving
dailywireless.org — ... . The U.S. passport card, used for frequent travelers between Canada and the states of WA and NY, contain a vicinity-read RFID chip that points to a stored record in secure government databases. ...

Exposing the Myth of Passport Card Security
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... and Bermuda at land border crossings or sea ports-of-entry. It is not valid for international travel by air. Some states are also developing WHTI-compliant drivers licenses and the State Department lists these other WHTI-compliant IDs: What's so special about these cards? As Paget notes in his presentation, they were sold as a way to make identification ...