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New high-tech passports with facial recognition on distant horizon.
Byline: Nora Achrati
WASHINGTON _ New high-tech passports once expected by October have been delayed at least a year and, according to screening technology specialists, may never provide the hoped-for level of protection against terrorists.
The main reason is that the key to the passports _ facial recognition _ requires technologies that even proponents say are difficult to implement and not yet reliable.
Facial recognition wasn't the choice of personnel screening experts, who generally favor fingerprints. It was picked by the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization, based in Montreal, which sets international travel standards. The United States and 27 other countries intend to use the new "biometric" passports.
The new passports, which would replace existing passports as they expire, will come with embedded chips containing digitized versions of passport photos. They're intended to be machine-read and compared against existing libraries of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, New high-tech passports with facial recognition on distant horizon.