Safer swiping while voting and globetrotting
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 14:18
in Physics & Chemistry
Since 2007, every new U.S. passport has been outfitted with a computer chip. Embedded in the back cover of the passport, the "e-passport" contains biometric data, electronic fingerprints and pictures of the holder, and a wireless radio frequency identification (RFID) transmitter.