The e-Passport (also known as a biometric passport) was first introduced in 2005 and is now used by over 100 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and many others. It is much like the ...

As the U.S. government prepares to complete a conversion to the controversial RFID-based electronic passports, traditional paper-only IDs are still available for a few months to those listening to the ...

I was surprised — and a tad dismayed — to learn that fewer than 28 percent of U.S. citizens possess a passport. By comparison, 40 percent of Canadian citizens have passports. But that's up from 16 ...

The State Department yesterday issued final rules for implanting electronic identification chips into all U.S. passports, despite continuing controversy over the security of the system and its impact ...

Google appears to be working on adding e-Passport support to Google Wallet, letting you create an ID pass that you can use at “select TSA checkpoints.” Once you created an ID pass, you will be able to ...

In an increasingly globalised world, international travel, for leisure, work, education, medical care or family visits, has become a routine part of life for millions of Indians. In this light, the ...