U.S. to alter passport design because of privacy fears / International Herald Tribune, 28 April 2005

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/27/news/passport.php
Eric Lipton
"Responding to fears raised by privacy advocates that new electronic passports might be vulnerable to high-tech snooping, the U.S. State Department intends to modify the design so that an embedded radio chip holding a digitized photograph and biographical information is more secure"