ACLU RFID Passport Computer Chips ...

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Seeks Information On Government Tests of Controversial Passport Computer Chips

... "At issue are Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, which the government is planning on embedding in all U.S. passports in the coming year. These RFID tags (sometimes called contactless integrated circuits) will allow anyone with a RFID reader to access and duplicate the contents of passports that come within range of a reader." ...

The FOIA requests to the State Department and NIST, as well as a report on documents obtained through a previous request, are available at www.aclu.org/passports.