News US names the day for biometric passports

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  1. GreatOldOne

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    From The Register:

    A senior US government official has laid out detailed plans for the timing and form of US government issued biometric passports.

    Frank Moss, deputy assistant secretary for Passport Services, presented his organisation's plans to evolve to a new, more secure "intelligent document" from today's paper-based passports at the Smart Card Alliance's Government Conference and Expo conference last week.

    "Our goal is to begin production by October 26, 2004," Moss announced.

    Current plans call for the new passport books to include a contactless smart chip based on the 14443 standard, with a minimum of 32 Kbytes of EEPROM storage. The chip will contain a compressed full-face image for use as a biometric. European biometric passports, by contrast, are planned to feature both retinal and fingerprint recognition biometrics on their smart cards

    Full story here, once biometric verification has cleared you to view the article. Please place your right eye as close to your web cam as possible.... :D
     
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    So if you loose your passport you are royally ****ed?
     
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  3. GreatOldOne

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    No more so than if you lost you're passport now - You wouldn't be able to leave or enter the county...

    I assume that if you lost your passport abroad there will be a system to authenticate who you are before issuing a new / emergency one (as there must be know with non bio passports)
     
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  4. penski

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    You can travel without a passport - it just takes ages to go through immigration and stuff.

    *n
     
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    :eeek:


    No way .... you sure about this ?
     
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  6. Yo-DUH_87

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    The mark of the beast is near... :D Just so long as they don't ask to implant it under my skin :eeek:

    Makes me realy uneasy that the goverment has so much information about me/people in general. That could be abused all too easily :miffed:

    Ok, so I'm paranoid, but justly so :D :D
     
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    at the end of the day, it's there for the protection of society as a whole, but do you trust them to protect their own interests or societies.
     
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    The State's of course.
     
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    They cant refuse you entry to your own country but they can refuse you to other countries (ie if you loose your passport abroad u can be let home). Immigration w/o passport is only for asylum i would have though.
     
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    Thats what I thought too. You can come back home if ya lose your passport, but cant go anywhere else without it unless your embassy issues you with emergency travel documents.
     
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