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ePassports come in on budget - though with 'chip gap'
News The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has completed the launch of ePassports on time and on budget but question marks still surround several aspects of the project, including how defective chips on the electronic documents will be dealt with. [06 Feb 2007]
ePassports start their travels
News The first ePassports, which feature personal information stored on a computer chip, have been issued. According to the Home Office, ePassports are now being issued by the Foreign Office in Washington, and stocks are being built up for other offices... [21 Feb 2006]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to biometric checks. Speaking at a Westminster eForum, Stephen Harrison, director of Policy at the Identity and... [13 Jul 2007]
First biometric chipped ePassports issued in UK
News The first biometric ePassports have been issued in the UK. The ePassports, which are already available from the British Consulate Generals in Cairo and Washington, and the rollout to all passport-issuing posts overseas will be completed by July 2006. [06 Mar 2006]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News 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 to RAF Northolt, near London. [29 Jul 2008]
Biometric passports take off
News More that 2.5 million ePassports have been issued since the new biometric documents went into production in March. He said the changeover to ePassports had taken place over a number of months, while the agency also dealt with record levels of... [05 Oct 2006]
First biometric passports issued to diplomats
News The first ePassports featuring biometric identification stored on a chip have been issued to British diplomats. The ePassports have been issued to diplomats including the British ambassador to the US, David Manning. [08 Nov 2005]
ID cards to cost more than £5.5bn
News The cost of providing ePassports and ID cards to UK citizens for the period between April 2007 and April 2017 is estimated to be £5.55bn, according to the government's Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report May 2007. [10 May 2007]
RFID-chipped passport deadline passes
News The deadline for countries required by the US to issue passports with RFID tags has passed and all but three of the nations involved are now issuing the so-called ePassports, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (DoHS). [27 Oct 2006]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News The previous cost report - released in May 2007 - projected costs from April 2007 to April 2017 of the ID cards and ePassports scheme to be more than £5.5bn. A £5.43bn price tag covers the total resource costs of providing both ePassports and ID... [09 Nov 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News But a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns the cost could increase even more with the introduction of the second generation ePassports in 2009.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics [10 Oct 2007]
Biometric passport cracked and cloned
News However, standardisation across ePassports means the exploit would work on any other passport which uses RFID chip technology to store details of the individual - such as those now being issued in the UK or US - and was carried out using freely... [04 Aug 2006]
Passport price forced up by biometric chip costs
News Anti-fraud features include the gradual introduction of new biometric 'ePassports' from February 2006, which will contain a scan of the holder's facial features embedded in a chip. The UK Passport Service said it will manage the volume of biometric... [17 Nov 2005]
High-tech security forces up passport price - again
News ePassports aren't the only place that biometrics are being used. One million biometric ePassports have been issued since March when the new style travel documents were launched. Failure to have an ePassports programme in place before October would... [24 Jul 2006]
Passport applicants told to stop smiling
News UK passport applicants are being warned not to smile to ensure their mug shots comply with international aviation standards and also work with facial recognition technology being introduced with the new biometric 'ePassports'. [06 Sep 2005]
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