The Department of Home Security (DHS) has finally decided to postpone the controversial RFID program, which underwent in trial to track foreign visitors crossing the US borders.
DHS dropped the RFID program abruptly after realizing the technology is not so effective to track the visitors since readers did not detect RFID tag-embedded I-94 documents reliably during the testing.
Confirming this, DHS secretary Michael Chertoff said,
I mean, this is the real world. I think, yes, we’re abandoning it. That’s not going to be a solution. So in the real world, when something fails, we drop it and we move to the next thing.
As part of the US Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology program, foreigners were provided I-94 document with an embedded RFID tag. These tags carry ID information of visitors who cross US borders. However, the RFID readers failed to extract data from I-94 document effectively.
