Warning: If you have a Passport today you are in a database system which will soon be the antichrist system. Yes, the database is in it's early stages but passports are the first group of American citizens in this Global RFID database. The question for you who have already joined this database system is "How do you get out" while the rest of us focus on staying out. This is not the place to be in the coming months and years...
In Munich, Germany - The Infineon corporation is the first company to announce a major contract to supply RFID chips that will be integrated in US passports. Infineon said that it received a "multi-million piece purchase order from the United States government" to supply its highly-secure integrated circuit technology for new electronic passports that will be issued to the public.
The blank passports are being sent to Europe where they get their implanted microchip, and they are then sent off to Ayutthana, Thailand where they have the antenna inserted. The problem is that the factory in Thailand is owned by Netherlands-based Smartrac Technology Ltd. In 2007, Smartrac reported that China had stolen its patented chip technology for e-passport chips.
According to legislation passed by the U.S. Congress, all countries must issue passports with secure chip technology.
Biometric passports contain RFID (radio-frequency identification) chips. The purpose of the chips is storage of biometric and other data, which are retrievable. Biometric passports are sometimes referred to as electronic passports, because the chips are electronic. (Sounds good doesn't it?)
That law also provides that machine-readable passports which comply with international standards must be a biometric (RFID) passport.
The chip of a U.S. passport stores a digital image of the photograph of the passport holder, passport data, and personal data of the passport holder. The capacity of an RFID chip is a minimum of 64 kilobytes, which is large enough to store in addition to the digital image, passport data and personal data, biometric identifiers such as fingerprints and retina scans and also has capacity to store additional data as needed...
Data in a passport chip are scannable by readers. A passport does not have to be plugged into a reader in order for data therein to be read. Like toll-road chips, data in passport chips can be read when passport chips are proximate to readers while opened.
