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E-passports will go down as a big win for the companies mad to chip human populations, despite objections such as this:

“the U.S. government (is) promoting itself a technology that has known privacy and security issues when there appear to be equally if not better, more effective alternatives.”

via FOXNews.com – U.S. Allies Begin Issuing High-Tech Passports for Travelers – Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum.

The concerns of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (above) reflect those that I reported for Wired back in 2005.