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In a move by the UK government, passports will be required to purchase mobile phones. Currently there are around 27 million on contract accounts and 49 million pay as you go subscribers in the UK....

Tom Warren · Oct 20, 2008 · Hot! with 42 comments

American travelers have begun receiving a new RFID-equipped electronic passport in mid-August, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of State. Right now, the only people receiving the new passports, which are embedded with...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Aug 18, 2006 with -1 comments

All U.S. passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. Sweeping new State Department regulations issued Tuesday say that passports issued after...

· Oct 28, 2005 · Hot! with 1 comment

Biometric technology that scans faces, fingerprints or other physical characteristics to confirm people's identities is about to get its biggest, most public test: at US border checkpoints. Yet significant questions loom about whether the US...

· Aug 29, 2003 with -1 comments

A senior US government official has laid out detailed plans for the timing and form of US government issued biometric passports. Frank Moss, deputy assistant secretary for Passport Services, presented his organisation's plans to evolve...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jul 22, 2003 with 1 comment

Microsoft hopes to extend its Passport online identification system into authorizing credit card payments. The software giant will strike a partnership Tuesday with security-software maker Arcot Systems, which builds online payment systems...

· Jul 9, 2002 with -1 comments