By October 2006, the U.S. State Department says all U.S. passports except emergency documents issued by U.S. embassies will be enabled with RFID chips. In December, the State Department will begin testing the new electronic passport programs with government employees who use official passports for work. The electronic passport's chip will include the name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth, and digitized photograph of the holder, as well as the passport number, issue date, expiration date, and type.
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