This article has nothing to do with e-Passport. It has to do with the Passport Card. The Passport Card is cheaper than a full-fledged e-Passport book, and is very different in many respects. For one, a regular e-Passport stores a bunch of personally identifiable information on the RFID. The Passport Card only has an identifier which links to a database that stores the personal information.
For what its worth, e-Passports began distribution in 2006.
The best example is San Ysidro, which is the largest land border crossing in the world. As of right now (note: it's not even rush hour), it's a 55 minute wait for normal travelers, but for RFID-enhanced SENTRI lanes, it's only a 10 minute wait.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Ugh... More FUD...
This article has nothing to do with e-Passport. It has to do with the Passport Card. The Passport Card is cheaper than a full-fledged e-Passport book, and is very different in many respects. For one, a regular e-Passport stores a bunch of personally identifiable information on the RFID. The Passport Card only has an identifier which links to a database that stores the personal information.
For what its worth, e-Passports began distribution in 2006.
If you want to see a decent real-time example of how these cards will help in the real world, go to this website:
http://apps.cbp.gov/bwt/
The best example is San Ysidro, which is the largest land border crossing in the world. As of right now (note: it's not even rush hour), it's a 55 minute wait for normal travelers, but for RFID-enhanced SENTRI lanes, it's only a 10 minute wait.
Damn. The article got my hopes up.
Oh, well...
Now I need to find my tinfoil.