Are E-Passports obligatory?

Starbrite

Microwave it, or have it go in extreme heat or extreme cold them the chip will stop working

No idea if mine still works, its been to ski resorts and tropical places... I'm sure there is a GPS tracking device in there, however they just say it shows the same info as what is printed....

callum9999

Starbrite wrote: »

Microwave it, or have it go in extreme heat or extreme cold them the chip will stop working

No idea if mine still works, its been to ski resorts and tropical places... I'm sure there is a GPS tracking device in there, however they just say it shows the same info as what is printed....

Of course it works after being in the cold and the tropics...

And of course it shows the same info - what else would it show (that the government have access to)?

As to the GPS device, I sincerely hope you're joking!

Obviously_the_best

Although in all seriousness, microwaving it would work.

martindow

rainygreyhound wrote: »

I've come back into the UK quite a few times and found the electronic gates a pain in the !!! because they were hardly ever working. Ended up queuing anyway.

Agree with this. If mine works then my partner's fails or vice versa. In some places they send you straight to a desk and it's not a problem. On other occasions I've ended up at the back of a long queue and would have been much nearer the front if I'd avoided the self service gates.

Maybe it's the bags under my eyes as I arrive tired. There is such a contrast with the glamorous photo in the passport that the machine doesn't recognise me.

Yolina

martindow wrote: »

In some places they send you straight to a desk and it's not a problem. On other occasions I've ended up at the back of a long queue and would have been much nearer the front if I'd avoided the self service gates.

At London City, when the machine fails do to its thing, they send people straight to the front, which is most irritating for those of us without a biometric passport yet and who therefore have no choice but queue for the now reduced number of manned desks :mad:Thankfully my passport expires this Oct and since I need to go to the French consulate this month to renew my ID card, I'm jut going to get a new passport sorted at the same time

xHannahx

Hubby still has an old one, think it expires sometime next year. He has had no problems with it, just takes him longer to clear immigration than me and the kids with newer passports.

gregdedman

Firstly edicky, it is inherrantly wrong for you to think anything else other than that I would like to preserve some privacy.

Secondly, this article may open some peoples minds as to the dangers of biometric passports.
http:// https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

To be able to clone an electronic passport remotely should concern everyone. Its not science fiction.

Gloomendoom

Your link appears to have been sabotaged.

callum9999

gregdedman wrote: »

Firstly edicky, it is inherrantly wrong for you to think anything else other than that I would like to preserve some privacy.

Secondly, this article may open some peoples minds as to the dangers of biometric passports.
http:// https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

To be able to clone an electronic passport remotely should concern everyone. Its not science fiction.

I can assure you that article won't open anyone's mind on here. If that's the best those privacy nuts can come up with, I'm perfectly happy with biometric passports.

It certainly does seem like science fiction to me, the only mention of the ability to clone it that I can find is if you physically have it in your hand. In which case, of course, you could clone a non biometric passport.

Not that I see what anyone other than a doppelganger would want with my biometric passport that they couldn't do with a normal one?

callum9999

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Your link appears to have been sabotaged.

Clearly it's the authorities trying to silence dissent!