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	EU biometric visa trial opts for the tinfoil sleeve
		Gemplus describes Gemborder2 as "ICAO-compliant contactless chip technology for electronic passports and visas", which is true after a fashion, but misleading in that it tends to suggest the ICAO standard is wider-ranging than it actually is. ICAO merely requires a facial biometric for the passport, and practically everything else is optional.
		This will be exacerbated when biometric passports do exist, and the confusion that's going to be caused by the need to have the right document out of its protective sleeve and the other documents in it should be obvious to everybody except our rulers.
		Current passport standards are vulnerable to forgery, but the use of a facial biometric in the ICAO standard makes forgery much harder, and does a far better job of linking the holder to the document.
	www.infowars.com /articles/bb/eu_biometric_visa.htm (821 words)

	U.S. Delays Biometric Passport Deadline until 2005
		The new law calls for adoption of biometric passport identification standards by October 26, 2005 rather than by October 26, 2004, which was the deadline originally adopted when the U.S. Congress ordered more secure passport standards as part of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002.
		Biometrics indicators are features that can be definitively linked to a given individual, such as fingerprints.
		Nations are also working to ensure that their passports and reading machines are compatible with those produced by all other nations involved in the VWP so travelers can move smoothly across international borders.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/press/2004/august/081102.html (676 words)

	The Identity and Passport Service - Biometric Passports
		Biometrics are unique, measurable, physical characteristics which can be used to recognise the identity or verify the claimed identity of an individual.
		Externally, the new Biometric Passport appears very similar to the current one, although it also features a logo indicating that there is a chip inside.
		Biometric passports are being introduced gradually over a period of six to eight months in 2006.
	www.passport.gov.uk /general_biometrics.asp (873 words)

	Biometric Passports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A "biometric" or a "biometric identifier" is an objective measurement of a physical characteristic of an individual which, when captured in a database, can be used to verify identity.
		A passport issued on or after October 26, 2005 must not only be machine-readable but also contain a biometric; otherwise, the traveler is not eligible to use the Visa Waiver Program and must obtain a visa.
		Some countries have indicated that implementing a biometrics program might be possible by October 26, 2005, but most countries—including Denmark--will not be able to issue biometric passports on a large scale until 2006.
	www.usembassy.dk /Visas/BiometricPassports.htm (440 words)

	Biometric passport - Orgwiki
		The European version of the biometric passport is planned to have digital imaging and fingerprint scan biometrics placed on the Radio Frequency chip.
		The new passports will be fully compliant with ICAO regulations, including a digital version of the holders photograph on a chip embedded in the passports.
		UK Passport Service “Later in the decade we may require all applicants (first time and renewals) to apply in person so that they can be interviewed and have their fingerprints and possibly biometrics recorded”.
	www.openrightsgroup.org /orgwiki/index.php/Biometric_passport (2429 words)

	US expected to abandon Biometric passport plan
		Rules requiring Irish citizens to carry high-tech passports when visiting the US are to be dropped because the technology behind the scheme is seen as unreliable.
		But according to a report in the Sunday Times, Ireland has shelved plans to include biometric chips in passports amid expectations that the US is to abandon its biometric passport requirements.
		Biometric passports have been under consideration since 2002, when US legislators passed a law requiring the 27 countries in the Visa Waiver programme to start issuing high-tech passports by October 2004.
	www.propagandamatrix.com /articles/june2005/140605passportplan.htm (533 words)

	Biometric Passport Procurement Moves Forward
		Biometric U.S. passports will include a digital image of the bearer's face and biographic information on the electronic chip embedded in the passport.
		A pilot test for the issuance of biometric passports to U.S. government employees is planned for late December 2004.
		The new biometric U.S. passport complies with the International Civil Aviation Organization's standards for incorporation of biometrics in international travel documents such as passports.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2004/34423.htm (306 words)

	Canada To Introduce Biometric Passport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the inclusion of a digitized photo, the passport moves into the controversial realm of biometrics, the use of measurable personal features such as an image, iris scan or fingerprints as identification markers.
		As part of the security overhaul, the government will also eliminate the practice of printing some passports overseas, and it will redesign the emergency passport issued to travellers whose documents are lost or stolen, Kingsbury added.
		Officials are looking at requiring recipients of temporary passports to apply for a regular passport, valid for five years, at the same time, Kingsbury said.
	www.rense.com /general54/biomet.htm (716 words)

	World May Not Be Ready For U.S Biometric Passport Plans - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Biometric systems reduce patterns in a person's fingerprints, irises, faces, voices or other characteristics to mathematical algorithms that can be stored on a chip or machine-readable strip.
		When arriving travelers put their fingers into biometric scanners or stand in front of face-recognition cameras, a computer will check whether the patterns it detects match the ones the subjects gave when they were first scanned.
		Biometric scans at land borders with Mexico and Canada -- which handle 80% of America's 440 million annual immigration inspections -- are due to begin in 2005.
	www.forbes.com /2003/08/25/0825passportpinnacor.html (1447 words)

	EPIC - Biometric Identifiers
		Biometric identifiers are of course widely used by people to identify each other – one might recognize a friend by the sound of her voice, the color of her eyes, or the shape of her face.
		The International Biometric Industry Association maintains a FAQ and links to other resources on biometric technology.Erik Bowman of Identix, a leading developer of biometric technology, describes biometrics from the industry perspective.
		The International Biometric Group, a leading integration and consulting firm in the biometric industry, has put together a brief in response to the terrorist attacks in which they caution against thinking of biometric devices as silver bullets and point out various limitations to the use of the technology.
	www.epic.org /privacy/biometrics (2242 words)

	IDABC - BE: Belgium unveils biometric passport programme
		Face recognition is likely to be chosen as the biometric technology to be used, but the passport could also include the holder's fingerprints as a second biometric identifier.
		Belgian passports currently issued are machine-readable documents, which were introduced in 2003 to tackle the growing problem of passports falsification.
		Belgian passports would then comply will a further US requirement for biometric information in travel documents, which is currently due to become effective on 26 October 2004 but could be postponed until 2006.
	europa.eu.int /idabc/en/document/2552/599 (581 words)

	CNN.com - Most will miss biometric passport deadline - Jan. 29, 2004
		Congress mandated that the 27 countries issue travelers to the United States machine-readable passports with a biometric identifier -- such as a fingerprint or facial recognition technology -- to help prevent terrorists from entering the United States.
		But while the 27 countries are making "varying degrees of progress" in developing biometric passports, only one or two will meet the deadline, Assistant Secretary of State Maura Harty told Congress.
		Japan and the United Kingdom will not begin issuing biometric passports until late 2005 and others may not come on-line until a year later, she said.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/01/28/biometric.passports (651 words)

	Visa Waiver Program Fact Sheet
		On October 26, 2004, all passports presented for VWP travel are required to be machine-readable.
		Passports issued on or after that date will be required to be biometrically enabled to be valid for use in VWP travel.
		Although the addition of biometrics to the U.S. passport is not covered by Congressional mandate, the Department of State has been working diligently towards developing U.S. biometric passports.
	travel.state.gov /visa/temp/without/without_1256.html (576 words)

	Biometric Passport Program Hits Snag
		Harty said the United States does not expect delivery of the 64 kilobyte "contactless" chips needed for the passports until next year, and the State Department does not anticipate completing the transition to biometric passports until the end of 2005.
		The standards for biometric passports were approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization in May and include a full-face image on a chip, as well as minimum chip storage capacity, security standards and technical benchmarks.
		Taking place in airports, the testing will involve air crew and regular passengers presenting their biometric passports at ports of entry where the passports will be read electronically.
	www.insideid.com /credentialing/article.php/3386631 (652 words)

	Biometric passport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A biometric passport is a combined paper and electronic identity document that uses biometrics to authenticate the citizenship of travelers.
		Like some smartcards, the passport book design calls for an embedded contactless chip that is able to hold digital signature data to ensure the integrity of the passport and the biometric data.
		In particular, Grunewald did not change the data held on the copied chip, which binds biometric data (e.g., photo) to identity data (e.g., name and date of birth), without invalidating its cryptographic signature, which means at present the use of this technique does not allow reprogramming of fake biometric data to match a different user.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biometric_passport (2102 words)

	Extension sought for mandatory biometric passport requirements for visa waiver applicants — Hodgson Russ LLP ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The US government is seeking to extend by two years, the requirement that all visa waiver applicants present biometric passports.
		The Department of State has indicated that most countries will not have biometric passports available until 2006, and the absence of the passports by the October 2004 deadline will result in an additional 5 million visa applications in the next fiscal year.
		The US government, seeking to extend by two years the requirement that all visa waiver applicants present biometric passports, has contacted the ambassadors of 21 countries to determine if new biometric passports will be ready by October 2004.
	www.hodgsonruss.com /news_353.html (453 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Facing a biometric future
		One other biometric identifier, iris pattern or fingerprints, will also eventually be stored on the chip and trials are underway in the UK to decide which one is used.
		Although "facial recognition biometric data" all sounds very sci-fi, it is in fact the least accurate biometric identifier there is, according to experts.
		The key to the power of biometrics to identify people is the amount of randomness and complexity that the biometric contains, according to Professor Daugman.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3389209.stm (997 words)

	EU biometric RFID scheme unworkable
		The passport plans theoretically stem from ICAO's standard for biometric passports (which only requires facial) and from US requirements for biometric passports for visitors (again, facial acceptable) from late next year.
		The VIS is intended to collect biometrics from visa applicants and store them first on national databases, then on a central EU database, which in theory would mean biometrics could be compared from records rather than locally between bearer and document.
		This, considering that the biometric passport system just adopted by Europe is currently specifically limited to a local compare, mightn't strike the powers that be as entirely ideal.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/10207 (771 words)

	PC World - U.S. Delays Biometric Passport Requirements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The country had been planning to require biometric passports issued from October 26 for admission into the U.S. under the visa waiver program.
		Biometric passports contain a non-contact chip in which all of the information from the passport's data page is stored along with a digital photograph of the holder and as-yet unspecified additional data that could include a fingerprint scan or other biometric information.
		Unlike the biometric requirement, the new digital photo requirement and last year's machine readable requirement apply to all visitors traveling under the program and not just those with passports issued after the deadline dates.
	www.pcworld.com /resource/article/0,aid,121408,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp (547 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Germans get biometric passports
		The new passport looks much like the old one, but airport control devices can detect a minute electronic tag concealed inside the cover.
		When passengers have their passports checked at the airport, a device will scan their face whilst the immigration officer swipes the passport past another control device to check whether the information matches.
		Christian Democrat MP Germany is introducing the new biometric passport well ahead of the rest of Europe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4395726.stm (592 words)

	Face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack
		Dutch TV programme Nieuwslicht (Newslight) is claiming that the security of the Dutch biometric passport has already been cracked.
		Riscure notes that that the speed of the crack is aided by the Dutch passport numbering scheme being sequential.
		These make it clear that a skimming exercise could potentially yield all biometric data from a passport (or indeed a biometric ID card), giving ID thieves and would-be forgers a considerable leg up in the construction of fakes.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/january2006/300106biometric.htm (257 words)

	Biometric passport technology hacked - TechSpot News
		The UK government and the governments of many other EU countries are touting biometric passports as the answer to many problems, illegal immigrants and the threat of terrorism being some of the main ones.
		Such biometric passports contain data such as the owner's fingerprints, facial scans and iris patterns, all stored on a built in chip.
		He has found that the data held on the chips can be transferred onto blank chips, which could then be implanted in fake passports.
	www.techspot.com /news/22460-biometric-passport-technology-hacked.html (423 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- U.S. to revamp biometric passport standards to help allied countries comply
		WASHINGTON – Acknowledging international concerns, the United States will revamp its biometric passport requirements to make it easier for foreign travelers from friendly nations to enter the country without a visa, The Associated Press has learned.
		The new passport standards – requiring digital photographs to match with a person's unique physical characteristics by October and an embedded identification chip later – would be similar to international biometric guidelines already in place.
		The new rules would allow the visa-waiver nations to comply with less stringent biometric guidelines similar to those set in 2003 by a branch of the United Nations.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20050614-0725-us-passports.html (663 words)

	Biometric passport requirements delayed
		The United States proposed the biometric passports, which contain computer chips with digitized biological information such as facial images and fingerprints, as a security measure after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
		In an April 7 letter to the EC, which is the executive office of EU, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) proposed that passports that met the ICAO standard in effect in 2002 would be acceptable under the law.
		However, it would be “politically awkward” for France and Italy because their passports do not meet the ICAO standard of 2002 either, the newspaper said.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/1_1/daily_news/26400-1.html (410 words)

	Non-Immigrant Visas - Biometric Passport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a small chip that is incorporated into the new passports of the 188 member countries of the new program.
		In accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organization, it provides for a more secure, faster, way of traveling with a passport that allows the customs agent to bring up, electronically, your personal data (the information that is found inside of today’s passports).
		An additional component is the digital facial image brought up by the RFID Chip, as well as each chip having its own identification number that has its own digital signature to ensure that copies are not fabricated.
	madrid.usembassy.gov /cons/nonimmigbiometric.html (120 words)

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