E-passports are major improvements over original passports in a few key ways. We break down what makes them different from ...

The U.S. government plans to begin issuing electronic passports in December that feature a built-in chip that contains information about the passport holder and facial-recognition capabilities. In an ...

The U.S. State Department has approved new rules that pave the way for the use of RFID-equipped electronic passports beginning in December — despite concerns about privacy issues raised by the new ...

A new global passport verification system launched by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) promises faster, more secure travel. The upgraded Public Key Directory (PKD) enables ...

Few errands have aged worse than renewing a passport. While we've spent the last decade managing our banking, our taxes and even our doctor visits from a phone screen, passport renewals stubbornly ...

Google appears to be working on adding e-Passport support to Google Wallet, letting you create an ID pass that you can use at “select TSA checkpoints.” Once you created an ID pass, you will be able to ...

At last week’s Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas, Lukas Grunwald, a consultant with computer security firm DN-Systems, demonstrated that using an open source software package called ...