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South Africa Rolls Out Biometric Passports

Posted by timothy on from the rfids-please dept.

volume4 writes "The South African Department of Home Affairs has begun rolling out security enhanced passports to new applicants from this week. A facility in Pretoria which prints the new passports was officially opened last week by the minister of home affairs, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. The new passports have an embedded RFID chip which stores the owner's biometric information, including personal details, a high-resolution colour photograph and fingerprint information."

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  1. Noob Asks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is this showing up in red?

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