[BNM] [OT] ePassports

[Dave Phelan]

On 10/5/06, Martyn Fagg <lists at muphi.com> wrote:
> Well, I thought I'd beaten the deadline for the new ePassports,
> getting my application in before the price rise, but no my new
> biometric Passport arrived today, containing an rfid chip. Arse.

The deadline was to beat the price rise that ushers in the ID cards,
not the biometric RFID passports. I got my daughter a passport in
April, and that was RFID. I renewed mine in May, and it wasn't. It
depends on the issuing passport office whether you have a chip or not.

If you want a first passport from October, then it's interview and
rubber gloves time. The rest of us are spared that for a while yet.

http://www.renewforfreedom.org/NO2ID_Factsheet1.pdf

Wow: a million chipped passports issued between March and July:
http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/general_biometrics.asp

But don't worry. Tinfoil is still legal. For now.
:-)

Dave Ph

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