What's going on with that whole deadline for US Visa-Waiver countries to get biometric enabled passports? Well, since you asked...
A meeting is planned next week to really sit down and figure out how realistic the goals are in relation to the technology. Testing of the hardware, software, and people's patience is in order.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will host a testing event for electronic passports featuring biometric data next week, opening a can of technological worms that will tax the ingenuity, patience and diplomacy of dozens of national governments, chip vendors and reader manufacturers.
US e-passport plan raises tech, diplomatic hackles
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