Passport to nowhere [electronic passport with biometric information].

Undue haste led the US government and the 27 countries in its visa-waiver pool to start a program to embed radio-tagged ICs in passports. These chips encode the physical characteristics of the bearer starting with the face. Its goal is to provide foolproof passport identification using a combination...

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Published in:IEEE spectrum 42, 1 (2005).
Main Author: Ross, P.E
Format: Article
Language:English
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