Passport lifespan: 10 years... Chip warranty: two years... The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has completed the launch of ePassports on time and on budget but question marks still surround ...
ISELIN, N.J., Oct. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (Nasdaq:OTIV), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, payments, ...
BERLIN – Veridos has announced a new partnership with the Government of Kenya, and together they aim to further enhance the country’s electronic passports. Kenya is committed to making regional and ...
Airport security requirements have dramatically accelerated improvements in, and the adoption of, biometric technology. Biometric technology has long been used to confirm individuals’ identities and ...
The thousands of UK ePassports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts. A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on route ...
Bangladesh is planning to start the distribution of digital passports, also known as ePassports, as early as June this year to ease immigration activities. The ePassport has an embedded electronic ...
An ePassport supplements the traditional paper passport by adding a microcontroller chip containing biometric information used to authenticate travelers’ identities. These chips use the same ...
Throughout 2007, the global ID and security markets were heavily focused on developing the technology and systems to issue second generation ePassports with Extended Access Control (EAC). This has ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The Home Office needs to explain why both an ePassport and identity card are needed despite them holding similar information and costing billions of pounds, a group of MPs said on ...