What privacy issues might raise in using RFID technology on passports?

None

The most recently issues US passports already have RFID as do those of most 1st world countries. For official purposes there is no expectation of privacy, as the passport has to be presented and examined when needed at border crossings and for other governmental uses. The problems arise if an unauthorized person or institution ‘reads’ the RFID information. The technology currently in use however, requires that the document be very close to the sensors, a few inches away at most, so there is little possibility of anyone scanning your passport from far away. The danger is in presenting your passport at a hotel or using it for identificaiton. This however does not differ from the non-RFID document, which can be read by anyone who gains access to it. so…. in all, privacy is a non-issue.

The technology has been cracked some time ago. It’s redundant as a result. People would lose more rights to privacy without any benefits of security. The Govt receives even more private data on it’s citizens at great cost to taxpayer but without benefit to taxpayer!

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1. The US government is NOT considering use of this technology. The ARE USING it in ALL new passports.
2. The chips in use can only be read at a range of 3 to 4 INCHES, and contain NO data not visibly readable in the otherwise standard passport in which they are included.

These passports DO NOT raise privacy issues.

I can see this technology being used to spot people that have outstanding debts to government agencies and thus barred from leaving the country. I can see this also used to prevent people who have pending arrest warrants from leaving the country as well as not allowing people to travel that have court cases that have been continued even for minor offenses. I can see airlines using past history of an individual’s criminal background to make a profile of the individual and possibly denying a person the access to travel based on their own criteria–almost like a credit report! So if this happens, then are you free anymore? Do you then have the right to travel? Sounds like the beginnings of communism in America.