Neowin News Feed for: Passports

Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones

Tom Warren — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:33:58 +0000

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.... Read more...

Digital Passports Land in U.S.

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:23:57 +0000

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... Read more...

RFID Chips in New US Passports Starting Next Year

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:20:35 +0000

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... Read more...

US pushes forward with biometric visas and passports

Sat, 30 Aug 2003 03:12:41 +0000

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... Read more...

US names the day for biometric passports

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:54:30 +0000

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... Read more...

Passports and Visas

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:22:31 +0000

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... Read more...