Prague’s Opencard: open to electronic pickpocketing?

Apart from the ‘Big Brother’ aspect, some cards and passports using RFID chips are open to electronic snooping and data theft

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Brian Kenety | 04.01.2011

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Security questions aside, Opencard is unpopular with data privacy groups

When the Czech Republic introduced a new generation of passport incorporating RFID technology in 2006 and Prague the Opencard system late in 2008, privacy advocacy groups screamed bloody murder. But it’s not just the “Big Brother” aspect of RFID technology (tracking people’s movements and storing personal data) that is raising concern: It’s the danger of electronic pickpocketing.

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