The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)
The introduction in 2006 of British e-passports incorporating facial image biometrics has meant that British passport holders can continue to visit the United States without a visa. ❋ Ralph (2007)
Further a number of other countries, including Sweden, Australia and Singapore, are also issuing e-passports. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This article from the RFID Journal reports that last week, Japan started issuing its first electronic passports (e-passports). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Testing of the e-passports, which carry biometric identification technologies, will be conducted at San Francisco International Airport, as well as Changi Airport in Singapore [...] ❋ Unknown (2006)
The country expects to dispense more than 3.5 million e-passports within the next 12 months, with all Japanese passports will expected to carry an RFID [...] ❋ Unknown (2006)
The implication of this is that all UK e-passports are compromised! ❋ Unknown (2008)
The first French e-passports will reportedly include a digital photograph of the holder and other personal data. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the United States, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is carrying out a trial at San Francisco International Airport to test e-passport readability and assess how the RFID interrogators (readers) and biometric equipment needed to process the e-passports will impact the passport inspection process. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Testing of the e-passports, which carry biometric identification technologies, will be conducted at San Francisco International Airport, as well as Changi Airport in Singapore and Sydney Airport in Australia. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The country expects to dispense more than 3.5 million e-passports within the next 12 months, with all Japanese passports will expected to carry an RFID chip within the next 10 years. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The club has been active in opposition to Germany's increasing push to use biometrics in, for example, e-passports. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Tata Consultancy Services has committed to computerize the country's passport files and design software to support India's new e-passports, which store personal information on a chip embedded in the document. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations body that developed the standards for e-passports, opted to store travelers' fingerprints as a digital photo, no different than if you were to press the tabs of your fingers against a flatbed scanner. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The United States led the charge for global e-passports because authorities said the chip, which is digitally signed by each issuing country, would help distinguish official documents from forged ones. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The twenty-seven nations in the visa-waiver program, including most of Europe, must also submit plans to shift to "e-passports," which contain biometric data embedded in a small chip, by this date next year. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Sweden is now using e-passports with spy chips encoded with the personal details normally included in a passport – height, hair and eye color, and so forth – and with a digital photograph of the owner. ❋ Unknown (2005)
