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USA: Government Accountability Office report: Undercover Tests Show Passport Issuance Process Remains Vulnerable to Fraud

01 July 2010

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Government Accountability Office report: Undercover Tests Show Passport Issuance Process Remains Vulnerable to Fraud (pdf) The GAO ran a test to check the issuing of passports and found that:

"Of the five passports issued, State failed to crosscheck the bogus citizenship and identity documents in the applications against the same databases that it later used to detect our other fraudulent applications. In addition, despite using facial recognition technology to identify the photos of our undercover investigators and to stop the subsequent delivery of two passports, State did not use the technology to detect fraud in the three applications for passports that we received, which all contained a passport photo of the same investigator."

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