Smart cards for immigration? (1)
01 January 1991
Smart cards for immigration?
artdoc April=1992
The Home Office is `watching with interest' a Dutch experiment
in which frequent international travellers are given an
electronic `immigration card' which they pass through a machine
instead of having passports manually checked at immigration
control. The card carries the holder's fingerprints and other
personal data. The scheme brings nearer the prospect of universal
monitoring of passengers' movements throughout Europe under the
guise of improvements in speed and travellers' convenience. The
Home Affairs Select Committee, in its 8th Report, has made clear
its preference for a `smart card' over the British Visitor's
Passport, which it claims is too easily forged.
Evening Standard 18.2.92; Home Affairs Committee 8th Report,
1990/91, on the Home Office Annual Report, 21.10.91
Statewatch Vol 2 No 2 March/April 1992