Sweden and Norway began deploying biometric passports in October but privacy and security issues may limit the potential of the new systems. Both Norway and Sweden will store digital facial images on ...

A travel mishap has gone viral online in recent days. It highlighted the increasing application of biometric identity checks in airports. A U.S. traveler was detained by border officers who questioned ...

Lebanon’s General Directorate of General Security announced that, as of Thursday, Lebanese passports of the 2003 non-biometric model—those with serial numbers starting with RL ...

The British government is considering incorporating biometric cards into passports within the next four years as part of its increased security and antifraud efforts. The U.K. Passport Service (UKPS), ...

The outgoing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, called for a new international standard for putting biometric data such as fingerprints on passports. In a speech Friday at the ...

Morocco’s new legal framework for biometric passports will introduce Amazigh as one of the official languages used in the ...

DÜSSELDORF, German — Germany unveiled a new passport with a chip that contains biometric data and plans to be among the first nations in Europe to issue biometric passes, starting Nov. 1. Otto Schily ...