The AntiChrist thanks you and wants you to know he's available for parties and will be here all millenium..
That's an awful lot of data for just 64 bits...
There's no civil rights violation here. It's just making passports handier, more useful and harder to forge. Less than 10% of the country even has passports.
This is insane. The FedGov is keeping track of all of US, and meanwhile thousands of illegals (criminals) stream across our borders, and our "representatives" in Congress propose this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375781/posts
> 64 bits of memory, storing each traveler's name, date of birth, city of origin and other identifying information -- including a digital image
I think they left out a little "mega".