Government paranoia, thou shalt know no limits
Starting this week, three US border crossings will begin to tag visitors to America with wireless RFID-cards, which contain visitors' personally identifying information and can be read from 12 yards [11 meters, ed.] away. If this program is "successful" [it] will go live at every border crossing, in addition to the current practice of fingerprinting and photographing visitors.
Homeland Security radio-tags foreign visitors →
Visitors to the U.S. will get the card the first time they cross the border and will be required the carry the document on subsequent crossings to and from the States.
High-tech border pass raises alarm →
Anyone here who didn't realize yet that Department of Homeland Security is an almost literal translation of Staatssicherheitsdienst?
