The Danish government will start issuing new passports with digital photos and fingerprints starting on October 1. The decision to introduce fingerprints in passports was made by the European Union as part of their war against terrorism, human trafficking and trade, illegal immigration and other transnational crimes
Philippine officials in China launched the processing of applications for the Philippine electronic passport (ePassport) in Beijing.
[This article was published in the April 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
International News: April 2010
Xerox India, a provider of document management technology solutions and services, has announced the launch of its new product Xerox WorkCentre based on HI Q LED technology.
The Government of Switzerland would be introducing biometric identity Identity Cards by the year 2010. The cards will be electronically encoded with photo and fingerprints.
The Government of India plans to issue e-passports to diplomats from next month and to the citizens from the September 2010 onwards.
Soon, every citizen in Brunei will be able to get e-Passport or biometric passport. The Department of National Registration and Immigration has officially launched e-Passport project in 2008.
The Central Government in India is planning to fully implement e-passports in the country by 2013, according to Minister of State for External Affairs E.Ahmed.
Heightened global security concerns led the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to set a deadline of 2015 for governments to equip passports with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. In 2003, ICAO adopted a global plan for the implementation of not just machine-readable passports but also for the use of biometric identifiers in all of its 188 member countries.
