After Los Angeles, now it’s San Francisco International Airport. The Department of Homeland Security starts testing the RFID tagged passports in the next few weeks informs Informationweek. A Homeland Security spokeswoman says, “We’re bringing technology to the borders and chose RFID as one to help reach the goals of expediting safe entrance.”



Earlier to make border security more safe and simple all passports were embedded with each one chip carried individual’s name, address, place of birth and a photograph to a computerized reader. The reason behind this move was to ensure that the bearer was the person who was originally issued the passport.



But yet as again the controversy arose as some social engineers felt that it would be the favorite playground for the identity thieves and commercial data collectors.



Travel experts felt commercial travel companies, hotels, resorts would capture data and may create a dossier of sort from the checked in tourists and might later use the data bank fro commercial purposes.



However going in tune with the times Australia, New Zealand and Singapore are issuing passports with RFID chips and the Department of Homeland feels that The San Francisco airport would be an idle spot after Los Angeles to collect the information on foreign nationals traveling to and from United States.