Steps to Safeguard Your enabled Passport

RFID technologies are being used in most of the industries. Different organizations are using different types of RFID chips for making the process easier and for managing the time, increasing the profits.

Now-a-days biometric passports are being used for making the verification process easy and authenticated. United States started issuing the passports associated with the RFID chips.
Up to this all looks fine, but in some cases, personal data of yours can be read by the unknown persona part from the authorities by using the scanner. This can be done from a long distance without touching your passport. So, there are some preventive measures to protect against the tracking of the personal information which is in the passport.

• Identify whether your passport is an enabled one or not: Check for this, on your passport such as, if your passport has the rectangle with a circle and a line across it, then you can say that your passport contains the RFID chip and there is a possibility for reading it from a distance
• Decide Yourself: Take a quick decision on the RFID enabled passport. Whether you want to be cautious regarding the tracking or want your data to be protected or want your passport to be free of the RFID chip.
• Firstly if you want to be cautious: check whether there is a shielding to the chip inside the passport. Keep the passport very close when you are keeping it in your purse. Don’t even open it slightly.
• Secondly, if you want to protect the data: Buy a shielded case for your passport. This protects your enabled passport from being tracked. Or use the aluminum foil, but only in some cases it can give protection.
• Final Step is to disable the passport permanently, remove the chip by using the microwave or hammer it, this will disable the chip.

These are the different steps which can be used for protecting the passport from being tracked by the unknown person.