Privacy and Biometric Passports
This work deals with privacy implications and threats that can emerge with the large-scale use of electronic biometric documents, such the recently introduced electronic passport (e-Passport). A brief introduction to privacy and personal data protection is followed by a presentation of the technical...
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| description | This work deals with privacy implications and threats that can emerge with the large-scale use of electronic biometric documents, such the recently introduced electronic passport (e-Passport). A brief introduction to privacy and personal data protection is followed by a presentation of the technical characteristics of the e-Passport. The description includes the digital data structure, and the communication and reading mechanisms of the e-Passport, indicating the possible points and methods of attack. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c6f5533f5c0d4d53954f0d16502266782025-02-03T01:20:27ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal1537-744X2011-01-011147848910.1100/tsw.2011.49Privacy and Biometric PassportsIoannis Vakalis0Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyThis work deals with privacy implications and threats that can emerge with the large-scale use of electronic biometric documents, such the recently introduced electronic passport (e-Passport). A brief introduction to privacy and personal data protection is followed by a presentation of the technical characteristics of the e-Passport. The description includes the digital data structure, and the communication and reading mechanisms of the e-Passport, indicating the possible points and methods of attack.http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2011.49 |
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