A closer look
Biometric passports contain a tiny radio-frequency identification chip embedded in the cover, which stores your digital photograph and vital statistics to prevent international forgery; naturally, paranoid travelers immediately started buying ridiculous tinfoil-lined wallets to stop hypothetical hackers from stealing their identities from three feet away; the crushing irony is that these same hyper-vigilant tourists will then happily upload real-time, completely public updates of their exact coordinates and vacation itineraries to five different social media platforms; your government-issued microchip is incredibly secure, but your absolute inability to stop bragging about your mediocre trip to Cancun is the real privacy breach; you basically just handed local criminals the keys to your empty house because you desperately needed forty-two likes from people you have not spoken to since high school
