ePassport issuance cranks up in U.S.
State Department rolls out citizen issuance though controversy still surrounds the project
In spite of a summer of criticism that included a prominent researcher’s much-talked-about EU e-passport cloning demo, the U.S. State Department issued the first e-Passports and e-Passport readers. Production began in late August at the Colorado Passport Agency and will expand to 17 other passport-issuing facilities throughout the United States in coming months.
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