However, these can be altered. The hairstyle will change with fashion, eye colour can be faked with coloured contact lenses and going to extremes, the face can be altered with cosmetic surgery. The fingerprints provided, though, are non-replicable biometric data. However, this April, the Singapore government has started issuing a more secure & reliable BioPass. Norway and Sweden walked this path in 2005; the EU has set an August 28, 2006 deadline for its members to switch to biometric passports. So what is a BioPass? These passports have a polycarbonate plastic page with a contactless microchip set inside. Embedded within is the passport holder’s personal data, facial images and fingerprints….
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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006
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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006
