Citind in articolul de mai jos, urmatoarul pasaj:
"Other countries are also switching to microchipped, biometric
passports at the request of the United States. The Patriot Act says
visitors from 27 countries whose citizens don't now need visas to
visit the United States would have to get electronic passports by
next October"
rezulta ca si tarile EU vor schimba pasapoartele in toamna anului
viitor, adica coincide cam ce ce auzisem la BBC prin primavara cum
ca tarile EU ar trebui sa introduca din 2006 noi pasapoarte
sofisticate:)...
In Romania ce se mai "aude",("alti bani alta distractie"?:)))ca doar
urmeaza sa adere la EU?
La MAE.ro nu am gasit nimic, sau poate n-am avut timp de
cautare "avansata".
New Passports Will Have High-Tech Features By LESLIE MILLER,
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The State Department said Tuesday that it's adding two
security features to the new electronic passports that it will start
issuing in December.
The announcement partially assuaged privacy advocates who feared the
technology wouldn't protect travelers from identity theft or from
people who aim to harm Americans traveling abroad.
"Is it a step forward? Yes. Is it foolproof? That remains to be
proven," said Barry Steinhardt, a lawyer with the American Civil
Liberties Union.
As a result of tougher post-Sept. 11 security requirements, all new
U.S. passports issued by the end of this year are supposed to have a
microchip containing the holders' name, nationality, sex, birth
date, place of birth, issuing office and a biometric identifier a
digital photograph.
A tiny antenna embedded in the passport cover will allow remote
reading devices to capture the data on the chip. Privacy advocates
said anyone with a portable reader could remotely read, or "skim," a
passport holder's personal information.
The State Department said its original proposal in February
generated 2,335 comments that were overwhelmingly opposed to the
technology because of concerns that terrorists could identify and
target them as U.S. citizens.
So the new passports' front covers and spines will include an anti-
skimming material that blocks the radio waves that could pick up the
data.
They also will use Basic Access Control technology, which utilizes a
kind of personal identification number that must be touched
physically to unlock the data on the chip.
"It will not permit `tracking' of individuals," the State Department
said in making the announcement. "It will only permit governmental
authorities to know that an individual has arrived at a port of
entry, which governmental authorities already know from presentation
of nonelectronic passports."
The international standards for "electronic" passports were set by
the U.N.-affiliated International Civil Aviation Organization, which
has worked on standards for machine-readable passports since 1968.
The State Department said Basic Access Control will soon be added to
the ICAO standards.
Bill Scannell, a privacy advocate who founded a Web site that
generated comments opposing the new passports, said Basic Access
Control is an unproven technology that shouldn't be used in an
identity document.
"We don't know what can and cannot be done with this technology,"
Scannell said.
Other countries are also switching to microchipped, biometric
passports at the request of the United States. The Patriot Act says
visitors from 27 countries whose citizens don't now need visas to
visit the United States would have to get electronic passports by
next October.
The State Department will test the electronic passports in December
with government employees who use official or diplomatic passports
for government travel. The U.S. traveling public is expected to
start receiving new or replacement electronic passports in early
2006.
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