Let’s hope that Kube Data’s optimism about this left-to-right fingerprint swap is warranted. In other words, they’ll store even more than biometrics. Plus, with the upcoming version 2 of the logical data structure protocol (LDS2), they’ll move from read-only to read and write. Gemalto says that the future will bring e-passports that will soon store travel information such as eVisas and entry/exit stamps. But aside from governments’ unsteady rollout, what about the security of the passports themselves?Īs of mid-2018, e-passports had been rolled out in more than 150 countries, according to one vendor. We’ve heard from at least one think tank that has called the stuttering rollout of digital identity a mess.
If they do, who’s going to pay for it? They’re discussing that with Kube Data, reportedly trying to make sure that the cost of passport replacement doesn’t come out of Danish citizens’ pockets. Police are looking into whether or not the quarter-million affected passports will need to be replaced. With the new biometric passport Danish citizens are secured the possibility to travel to countries which in the future will demand this type of passport for entry. The decision to introduce fingerprints in passports has been made at central level in the EU as part of the combat against terrorism, human trade, human trafficking, illegal immigration and other transnational crime. The purpose is to fend off identity theft and passport forgery, as well as to fight a roster of other crimes: The mistake occurs in passports issued between 20.ĭenmark introduced biometric passports in 2011, containing digital photos, fingerprints and signatures. It’s only the state police that has access to the encryption key to where the error is found, and many affected citizens have probably travelled with their passports without any problems.Īccording to the local news outlet, the fingerprint errors were discovered, by chance, in 2017 by a citizen. It’s difficult to imagine that this will give citizens much of a headache. The Copenhagen Post quoted Jonathan Jørgensen: True, we accidentally swapped fingerprints for Danish citizens’ left and right hands on their passports, but it probably won’t cause much grief for these 228,000 people, said the head of Kube Data, which encoded the biometric data on the passports’ microprocessors.
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