U.S. State Department Makes Strong Statement in Favor of RFID

Oh, here we go. When this State Department RFID passport initiative goes mainstream -- and it will -- the privacy police are going to argue it's the rough equivalent of making every American man, woman and child leave a DNA deposit at the gate.

Despite ongoing security concerns, the US State Department has issued its first batch of passports with RFID chips. A handful of US diplomats are now carrying the new passports that store identifying personal information along with a digitized picture of the carrier on a small RFID chip.

The report, in its entirey, is available here.