[USA] Electronic passports headed your way / Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep 2005

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Alfred Borcover
"e-passports will contain an electronic chip with uniquely encoded biometric information (a facial photograph), a coil, or antenna, if you will, embedded into the back cover. The encoded chip will duplicate the information that's on the passport's data page--digitized photo, name, birth date, place of birth, nationality, etc. The e-passport also will incorporate codes and additional anti-fraud and security features. With today's thin technology, the chip, coil and metallic security shield will not add any detectable thickness to the cover."