After the passports the identity cards should be provided from 2010 also with biometrical signs, besides, the RFID chips which make the documents from the distance readable are integrated
Berlin - For one the new identity card is a progress which promises, among the rest, improved Internet security with trade and made easier authentication in the service of the terror prevention, for the other part of the nightmare of an increasingly linked up society in which state, economy and lobby groups work on the glass citizen.
The new electronic identity card in the scheck card format gets closer. On the 1st November, 2010 he is introduced as planned in Germany, informed the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Monday in Berlin. Then the information printed on the map is stored, in addition, in the identity card digitally. The integrated RFID chip also contains a digital passport photo. In addition, voluntarily the owner can allow to store two fingerprints. Of Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière (CDU) advertised to the new identity card: \ " He is smaller than the old, however, is able to do a lot mehr. \ "
great technology with menacing side effect potential
This stands except question: The document is selectable without touch. Indeed, RFID chips do not broadcast, however, the information can be called away from a certain distance - one speaks of about two meters