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InternetNews December 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	EPassports Could Have Blocking Mechanism Late last week, the ACLU accused the U.S. government of rushing the rollout of insecure, RFID-enabled passports in hopes of creating a de facto global identification standard that could be used for surveillance.
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Tim Gray	E-Passports Will be a Reality in 2006 Americans holding U.S. passports issued after October 2006 will carry embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside the documents, according to the U.S. State Department.
InternetNews April 4, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Privacilla: RFID For Goods, Not People A conservative think tank came out against the U.S. proposal to place radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in all citizens' passports.
CIO July 1, 2005 Thomas Wailgum	Is Big Brother Coming to Your Wallet? Despite privacy worries, the march is on toward putting RFIDs in individuals' wallets, whether or not they want them. Whenever companies decide to deploy RFIDs containing personal data, CIOs will have to figure out what's going to be done with the data.
InternetNews November 30, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Pakistan Faces Security Challenge with Viisage When it comes to fighting fraud and terrorism, you can never have enough technology. That's the message from Pakistan, which has tapped Viisage Technologies as part of an upgrade of its smart passport and national ID program.
InternetNews January 14, 2005 Roy Mark	EPassport Awards More RFID Contracts The U.S. Government Printing Office has awarded four more contracts for sample RFID computer chips to be used in the 2006 launch of electronic passports.
Reason March 2005 Julian Sanchez	No Passport to Privacy Travelers get chipped: In October the Government awarded contracts to produce a new generation of smart passports embedded with biometric RFID chips capable of transmitting data to readers dozens of feet away.
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Roy Mark	Privacy Groups Tag RFID ACLU, Center for Democracy and Technology push for baseline privacy legislation.
InternetNews October 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Security is in the Vicinity The feds have a deal for you: a new passport card that some security experts are already criticizing.
PC Magazine September 7, 2004 Karen Jones	New Frontiers for RFID Tags Depending on how closely you guard your privacy, RFID is either a benevolent new technology or Big Brother waiting to pounce.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Ed Sutherland	RFID May See 'Explosive' Growth Although tiny in size, radio frequency identification tags expect huge growth over the next five years.
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 Seth Porges	RFID Tags: Everywhere at Once RFID tags are showing up in everything from running shoes to passports. But are they making you safer or turning you into a target?
InternetNews July 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Biometric Passport Program Hits Snag Lack of chips and interoperability standards force one-year extension of biometric passport compliance.
The Motley Fool August 22, 2006 Tim Beyers	Feds to Feed RFID to Travelers On Monday, German chipmaker Infineon reported that its chips featuring RFID technology would be used in several million U.S. passports. Investors, take note.
CIO June 15, 2004 Ben Worthen	RFID Laws on Deck With widespread adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags under way, privacy advocates are pushing for regulations on these tiny computer chips that can track information about the products they are attached to.
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Brendan I. Koerner	Up Close and Personal High-tech identification devices could produce reams of data on law-abiding citizens -- but may be useless in fighting terrorists...
InternetNews June 14, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	IBM Addresses RFID Privacy Radio frequency identification technology promises to speed supply chain operations by automating the tracking of goods. But its potential to track people has privacy advocates crying foul.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Erico Guizzo	Loser: Britain's Identity Crisis Proposed biometric ID cards won't prevent fraud or terrorism
InternetNews October 23, 2006 Roy Mark	U.S. E-Passports Hitting Market Four years in the making, RFID-embedded passports meeting milestones.
InternetNews June 10, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	RFID Privacy Gap? The drive to place radio frequency identification tags on consumer products is relentless, but IT leaders say public policy on how to use and secure the information they'll provide is lagging behind.
Reason April 2002 Jeremy Lott	Fake IDs Facial recognition technology is often billed as a tradeoff between privacy and security. A recent American Civil Liberties Union report suggests that it's closer to a no-win deal, resulting in less privacy and precious little added security...
InternetNews September 25, 2009	DHS Privacy Report Downplays Laptop Searches The Department of Homeland Security brushes off criticism from civil liberties groups in 99-page report to Congress.
InternetNews February 25, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	A Baby Step For RFID Privacy RSA Security has announced that it's working on RSA Blocker Tag, an anti-radio frequency identification technology. The proposed tag is designed to prevent readers from accurately scanning tags on goods and reading their electronic product codes, or EPCs.
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Roy Mark	REAL ID Deadline Evaporates Under Pressure The Department of Homeland Security postpones implementation of controversial law mandating standardized state driver's licenses linked in databases.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2010 Carl Bagh	Wal-Mart's Use of RFID Tags -- a Privacy Issue or Supplier's Bane? Can Wal-Mart use them to gain another competitive edge?
InternetNews October 26, 2006 Roy Mark	Most Countries Meet E-Passport Deadline Only three Visa Waiver Program countries failed to meet today's deadline for issuing electronic passports.
Reason March 2009 Brian Doherty	Follow Up: ID and Surveillance The techniques and practices for a universally tracked and databased America using RFID technology are out there and could be just five years away.
InternetNews October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Study Sees RFID Savings For Wal-Mart Shoppers more likely to find what they wanted on the shelves, thanks to the new technology.
PC World July 2003 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Tracked by the Shirt on Your Back? Radio frequency technology has the potential to identify us all.
InternetNews May 31, 2006 Roy Mark	RFID as Big Brother? Please. A prominent Washington IT trade group is taking exception to a new government draft report raising privacy concerns over the use of RFID for human tracking.
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Michael Singer	'Real ID' Under Fire States and privacy groups mull a legal fight against a bill requiring national IDs citing the high cost and risk of identity theft.
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	Renewed Push to Collect Exit Data at Airports, Land Crossings The United States has never required foreigners to present their travel documents before leaving so authorities can't be certain who is or isn't overstaying a visa, a flaw that Congress has mandated that the executive branch remedy.
InternetNews February 18, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	RFID is Inevitable But Dicey Burton Group says security and privacy concerns remain despite RFID momentum.
U.S. Banker January 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Biometrics Takes Hold Overseas, But Not in U.S. U.S. banks, tied to legacy systems, are reluctant to start over with what many consider untested technology. Then there's the real bugaboo: privacy.
Wired May 2006 Annalee Newitz	The RFID Hacking Underground They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the RFID-hacking underground.
National Defense November 2012 Valerie Insinna	License Plate Reader Technology Sparks Lawsuit The American Civil Liberties Union sued two departments, including Homeland Security, 38 states and the District of Columbia in September over documents related to the federal government's use of automatic license plate readers.
InternetNews February 6, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	The New Chip-erati Are RFID implants geek-chic or a tool of the military industrial complex?
InternetNews August 21, 2006 Roy Mark	Infineon Wins E-Passport Order German chipmaker Infineon is the winning bidder to supply security chips for the new U.S. e-passports, which the Department of State began issuing earlier this month.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Mark Anderson	Quirks of RFID Memory Make for Cheap Security Scheme On-board SRAM produces unique chip fingerprint and random numbers needed for encryption
PC Magazine October 28, 2003	The Lookout: A Fix for RFID Researchers at RSA Security's lab have come up with a technique they say will eliminate many of the privacy concerns surrounding the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags.
InternetNews December 17, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Next-Gen RFID Standard Ratified EPCglobal released a standard for the next generation of radio frequency identification and the electronic product code. The protocol is the technical framework on which all future products can be built.
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Roy Mark	Biometric Passports: Not Ready for Prime Time Department of Homeland Security and State Department seek two-year extension of deadline for machine-readable passports with biometric identifiers.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Hitachi's RFID Takes a Powder Dust-sized RFID tag technology raises interesting possibilities. Is now the time for investors to buy in? Probably, but questions remain.
InternetNews June 22, 2005 Roy Mark	E-Passport Progress Still Stymied? Lawmakers lashed out today at Bush administration officials for their latest delay in implementing biometric passports.
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	California Crackdown on RFID A bill setting privacy standards for the tiny transponders has cleared the Senate.
T.H.E. Journal November 2007 Justine Brown	Tag! You're It! Requiring students to wear RFID-enabled badges can ease administrative tasks and tighten security, but some parents and advocacy groups think it insults children's dignity - and may threaten their safety.
Scientific American December 2008	Readers Respond on "The End of Privacy?" Letters to the editor on stories from our privacy issue
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Khermouch & Green	Bar Codes Better Watch Their Backs New retail technologies have a way of lingering in dreamland until discount colossus Wal-Mart decides it's time for everyone to wake up. The alarm clock in Bentonville, Ark., just went off again, this time for a successor to bar codes called Radio Frequency Identification.
InternetNews December 7, 2005 Tim Gray	Ridge: Terrorist Threats Spur Tech Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge said today ongoing terrorist threats would continue to drive science and technology innovation in the United States and in the process make a better and stronger country.
InternetNews September 13, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	RFID Makes Its Mark The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) on Friday introduced the AIM RFID Mark standard, a graphical system to provide a standard way to clearly show the presence of an RFID transponder, its frequency and data structure.