Your passport is full of codes and secret numbers. A look at what many of these strings of digits mean.

which is good news for all of us. One hundred sixty-four countries have passports with a contactless (NFC) chip. “Malaysia was the first country to issue biometric passports in 1998 ...

Palau has officially launched its electronic passport project with the help of the International Organization for Migration ...

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Restriction against smiling in passport photos stems from the need for accuracy in facial recognition software, which depends ...

“The shift to ISO/IEC 39794-5 is a major step forward in improving compatibility and efficiency in biometric verification. With more detailed metadata now embedded in e-passports, identity ...

Regular passports only contain the owner's data in written form and a photo. Meanwhile, electronic passports have a biometric ...