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EU calls for biometric passport delay
News The US has set a deadline of October 2005 that requires visitors entering the country under the visa-waiver scheme to hold a passport with a recognised biometric identifier held on an electronic chip.
[April 1, 2005, 17:00]
Europe speeds up electronic ID plans
News EU citizens may be hit by a double whammy of electronic idenfication measures over the next two years with the introduction of health insurance ID cards across Europe and a new EU passport embedded with a wireless chip carrying biometric information.
[October 23, 2003, 15:40]
Users to get more control over .Net Passport
News Microsoft has reached an agreement with the European Union to implement a package of changes in the .Net Passport online authentication service to stop it running afoul of EU data protection laws. Jonathan Todd, a spokesman for the European Union's...
[January 30, 2003, 17:26]
US urges EU to lead the way in biometric IDs
News The idea behind the biometrics discussions is for the US and EU to move towards developing a common international standard for passport, in order to deter forgers, with Schily adding that travel would be made harder without its introduction.
[October 30, 2003, 16:00]
European ID card data is not encrypted
News The UK Identity and Passport Service said UK ID cards would use a public key system, rather than symmetric keys. The Identity and Passport Service has worked hard to ensure the data on the ID card has the best possible protection," said a...
[February 6, 2009, 14:32]
EU passports get biometric data
News If the chip was embedded into a passport, it would give immigration officials a simple method to ensure the traveller is the owner of the passport. New EU passports will be embedded with a radio frequency ID chip that contains biometric data, after...
[July 18, 2003, 15:27]
Liberty Alliance releases ID spec guidelines
News But initial, single-party efforts such as Microsoft Passport encountered setbacks with privacy laws. In 2003 Microsoft was asked by the European Commission’s Article 29 working party to alter the way Passport handled personal details.
[April 14, 2005, 15:50]
ID cards could replace passports, say gov't officials
News Speaking on Friday at the Home Office, Identity and Passport Service (IPS) officials said that, in theory, the biometric ID cards could also be used for identification purposes when travelling beyond the EU, if the UK can reach agreements with...
[November 24, 2008, 7:39]
EC seeks to refine Microsoft antitrust remedies
Talkback They might surprise you given how EU goverments think about US software and politics nowedays (project Echelon wasn't the smartest move and so is Passport, Microsoft tax, WRMS and a few other things).
[September 19, 2003, 23:50]
Operators call foul on EU roaming charge initiative
News It takes no account of the Vodafone Passport scheme [introduced in July 2005] which is entirely free to use and is available for all our customers. Tuesday's decision by the EU to bring out legislation forcing mobile companies to slash roaming...
[March 29, 2006, 15:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The ten advantages include things like "help in the fight against terrorism", which not even the Government will say with a straight face in public these days, and "enable travel in the EU without a passport".
[October 14, 2005, 18:45]
ID cards may be delayed until 2012
News The date for that switchover to happen is currently under consideration, as the UK is not bound by the EU passport Schengen regulations to do this in 2009. The next move is to include fingerprints in a second-generation biometric passport, in line...
[January 23, 2008, 12:58]
Full biometric ID scheme to reach the UK 'by 2009'
News The move has been spurred on by US demands for all countries within its visa-waiver programme to have a machine readable biometric passport by October 2005. Speaking at the Biometrics 2005 conference in London, Bernard Herdan, chief executive of...
[October 20, 2005, 17:40]
Biometrics beyond borders
News Now if the DHS has a record of someone who has attempted to enter the country illegally that person will be denied application for a biometric passport. Authorities are already developing a biometric system to read the fingerprints of visitors...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Re: A moot point
Talkback While a passport would identify an individual it does not provide any further information such as NI number or address or even entitlement to be here. I don't know how it works with foreigners over here, but I would expect the leave to remain and...
[November 7, 2008, 17:14]
EC plans biometric border checks
News The measures would apply to the 24 nations within the EU's Schengen zone for passport-free travel. Visitors to Europe will face biometric screening and automated security checks under proposals for a shake-up of EU border controls.
[February 15, 2008, 7:20]
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Downloads Articles: 2 aus 5, Code 39, EAN, ILN Discount systems: Bahncard, Miles & More, Payback Documents: ID- and passport-numbers from different countries [BR, DDR, DE, ES, HK, SE, SG] Financials: CCC, CINS, CUSIP, IBAN, ISIN, Sedol Media: ISAN, ISBN...
[September 15, 2002, 8:00]
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Downloads Articles: 2 aus 5, Code 39, EAN, ILN Discount systems: Bahncard, Miles & More, Payback Documents: ID- and passport-numbers from different countries [BR, DDR, DE, ES, HK, SE, SG] Financials: CCC, CINS, CUSIP, IBAN, ISIN, Sedol Media: ISAN, ISBN...
[September 15, 2002, 8:00]
Europe inches closer to full e-passport rollout
News The tests demonstrated that it was possible for different EU countries to produce the e-passports to the same standard and that the e-passports could be recognised by passport-authentication systems in multiple countries.
[September 23, 2008, 9:22]
Gov't denies scrapping fingerprints for ID cards
News The ID card will need to meet international standards for travel documents, as it will act as a passport for travel within the EU," the spokesperson continued. The Identity and Passport Service has denied that fingerprints could be dropped from the...
[January 29, 2008, 9:19]
