“Good morning, Mr. Anderton…” Wow, shades of science-fiction! According to this article at the Register.co.uk, the US is developing passports with so-called smartcards in them. And, they expect to have them out by the end of 2004. Again, wow. These smartcards are going to hold biometric data about the holder so that, in theory, they’re [...]
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