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 ...

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 ...

The State Department's first generation of e-passports will store electronic information that is digitally signed using technology from Entrust, company executives announced this week. State officials ...

Google is making a big step toward a world where a physical wallet is obsolete. And it beat competitor Apple in announcing plans to enable a digital passport. Google Wallet will soon enable 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 ...

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 ...

India recently completed the implementation of its e-passport system under the Passport Seva Programme V2.0. This means all new and renewed passports, issued both domestically and by Indian missions ...