Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attack

WASHINGTON–A forthcoming travel identification card geared toward Americans who frequently cross U.S. borders into Mexico and Canada is drawing renewed criticism.

At a Monday workshop here, privacy advocates said they were puzzled that come summertime, the U.S. Department of State, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, still hopes to begin issuing so-called “passport cards” embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips whose data can be skimmed by readers up to at least 20 feet away.

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