Checking in for an international flight just got easier as American Airlines launches passport scanning in its mobile app. American is the first airline to offer passport chip scanning that securely ...

RFID expert Lukas Grunwald says e-passport readers are vulnerable to sabotage. * Photo: Courtesy of Kim Zetter *A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer ...

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This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The Lloyds mobile app utilises Near Field Communication (NFC) ...

The UK government is set to launch an app that will help EU citizens apply for residency in the UK post-Brexit. The process involves filling out a short form, taking a selfie, and scanning the chip ...

American Airlines has added a passport-scanning feature to its mobile app, with which passengers can scan relevant information and go to their gate without having passports checked by customer service ...

Customs and Border Protection officers can download and read the information on the RFID chips in U.S. passports, but they can’t authenticate it, according to a Feb. 22 letter from two senators. CBP ...

SEATTLE - A government official on Wednesday downplayed the privacy implications of a new wireless chip technology that soon will be embedded into American passports, but a civil liberties advocate ...

The data on the radio chips in so-called e-passports can be cloned and modified without detection, representing a gaping security hole in next-generation border control systems, according to security ...

As the State Department tries to meet the demand for electronic passports, which the agency began issuing last August, the companies producing the chip technology are marking the anniversary by ...