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DHS to test RFID tags in August

The RFID sector will get a big boost next month when the Department of Homeland Security’s US-VISIT program begins testing the use of RFID tags embedded in the I-94 arrival/departure forms that foreign visitors are issued when they enter the United States. When those foreign visitors exit the U.S., the RFID tags will communicate a unique identification number to special RFID readers which, in turn, will allow U.S. immigration authorities to call up biographic data on the traveler. Full Story