Passport lifespan: 10 years... Chip warranty: two years... The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has completed the launch of ePassports on time and on budget but question marks still surround ...

Every new Canadian passport is now an "ePassport." So why the "e?" As of July 1, passports now come with a small, embedded chip digitally containing personal information typed on page two.

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 ...

Airport security requirements have dramatically accelerated improvements in, and the adoption of, biometric technology. Biometric technology has long been used to confirm individuals’ identities and ...

BERLIN – Veridos has announced a new partnership with the Government of Kenya, and together they aim to further enhance the country’s electronic passports. Kenya is committed to making regional and ...

California-based Kena Kai today announced their new line of DataSafe passport wallets that protect the U.S. State Department's recently introduced ePassports from wireless identity-theft. These patent ...

Eindhoven, the Netherlands-- November 06, 2006 – Handshake Solutions, a line of business within Royal Philips Electronics, today stated that Handshake Technology is at the heart of 80% of all ...

An ePassport supplements the traditional paper passport by adding a microcontroller chip containing biometric information used to authenticate travelers’ identities. These chips use the same ...

Bangladesh is planning to start the distribution of digital passports, also known as ePassports, as early as June this year to ease immigration activities. The ePassport has an embedded electronic ...

Passport Canada plans to launch an ePassport in 2012, and in the meantime it wants to hear Canadians' thoughts on the issue — including revised fees. The new passport will be little changed in ...

FIME, an external and independent third party laboratory, has certified that Atmel’s AT90SC12872RCFT secure microcontroller (mCu) is compliant with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) and ...

Australian airports of the future could employ fewer customs agents and more kiosk-style self-processing technology, if current biometric trials succeed. By 2014 an estimated 70 per cent of arrivals ...