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ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News P is for Passports The latest government ID card plans have revealed people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans. The Home Office documents predict the cards will be fitted with a... [26 Feb 2008]
UK passports face massive price hike
News Fees for adult UK passports have risen by £45 between 1998 and 2006 to £66 with the introduction of the first biometric ePassports. These passports contain chips that store biographical... [10 Oct 2007]
RFID-chipped passport deadline passes
News The high-tech passports include an RFID chip with the passport holder's information and a biometric identifier, such as a digital photograph, to make them harder to forge. RFID tags are... [27 Oct 2006]
Biometric passports take off
News The new passports include a chip with the holder's facial biometric, with facial recognition software used to check passport applications against a list of known passport fraudsters. The... [05 Oct 2006]
Biometric passport cracked and cloned
News A hacker called Lukas Grunwald showed attendees at the Las Vegas Black Hat convention how to clone passports, using a German passport for his demonstration. Simon Perry, VP security strategy at CA and a member of the... [04 Aug 2006]
High-tech security forces up passport price - again
News There are currently around 47 million UK passports in circulation. One million biometric ePassports have been issued since March when the new style travel documents were launched. Each passport contains... [24 Jul 2006]
First biometric chipped ePassports issued in UK
News The new passports incorporate extra security features, including a chip with the holder's facial biometric. The biometric passports have already been... [06 Mar 2006]
Photos: New ePassport revealed
Photo The passports are currently being trialled and will be available to the public from February. It will hold the scan of the holder's facial features embedded in the chip. The cover of the ePassport looks... [30 Nov 2005]
Passport price forced up by biometric chip costs
News Biometric and traditional passports will be identically priced during that period but that will cease when biometric passports are fully rolled out and old-style... [17 Nov 2005]
EU calls on US to delay biometric passport deadline
News The UK biometric passports will have a chip with a digital image of the holder while the EU versions will also carry a fingerprint or iris scan. The European Union (EU) has called on the... [01 Apr 2005]
E-passports emerge on US horizon
News E-passports incorporate a special microchip that stores basic data, including the passport holder's name, date of birth and place of birth. E-passports" - also dubbed "smart... [26 Oct 2004]
Biometric passports: Sidekicks, sunglasses, smiles and scarves banned
News The directive will come into force in March 2005 in the UK and will form part of the Europe-wide drive towards biometric passports. The first biometric passports will be... [12 Aug 2004]
Biometric health and passport IDs head for Europe
News Additionally, a new EU passport containing biometric data about its holder has been pencilled in for introduction in 2005, a few months after the US makes biometric... [23 Oct 2003]
EU demands biometrics by 2005
News It follows the recommendations agreed at a meeting of the heads of state of the EU countries in June, where introducing biometrics to passports and visas were deemed priorities and the Commission was set to work on it. [03 Oct 2003]
UK passports to go biometric
News Biometric data is likely to appear on all UK passports within the following four years, the UK Passport Office chief has stated. Bernard Herdan, head of the UK Passport Office, said... [21 Feb 2002]
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