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TSA Wants RFID
In Boarding Passes

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CHICAGO -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is examining the use of RFID-tagged airline boarding passes that could allow passenger tracking within airports, a proposal some privacy advocates called a potentially "outrageous" violation of civil liberties.
 
Anthony "Buzz" Cerino, communications security technology lead at the TSA . . . spoke earlier this week at the RFID Journal Executive Conference here and said widespread use of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips boarding passes could enhance airport security by allowing security personnel to track all passengers in an airport. The RFID boarding passes would let security personnel "know people's whereabouts," Cerino said.
 
Cerino didn't say when or if the TSA would push for introduction of the RFID boarding passes or how such a project -- likely to require a massive, networked infrastructure -- would be funded.
 
The TSA has already started to work on deploying RFID boarding passes in Africa . . .
 
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics
/security/privacy/story/0,10801,91830,00.html




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