[BNM] [OT] ePassports

[Glenn Williams]

Thanks for the link. I particularly like the bit at the bottom: 

"We have chosen birds as a theme in the new passport to symbolise freedom to
travel. The birds are British residential and were chosen because they
provided a good scope for developing security features. "

Glad I've still got a pre-"War on Terror" one and didn't go for the No2ID
renewal campaign. 

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Phelan [mailto:dave.phelan at gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 October 2006 23:20
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] [OT] ePassports


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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