PASSPORT BIOMETRICS
May 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIECANADIAN passports are to contain facial biometrics as recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) under an anti-terrorist initiative costing Canada's federal government CDN$10 million. The technology involves a camera capturing holders' images, computer chips being embedded in the passports to carry their personal information and a central computer database of their images being created. This would enable immigration to verify a passport bearer's identity, checked against a visual record of their face, guarding against ...
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