Australia details plan to replace passport stamping with biometric scans

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SAN YSIDRO, CA - JANUARY 8:  Travelers take out their passports before checking in at San Diego International Airport January 8, 2006 in San Diego, California. Beginning on January 23rd, United States passengers traveling by air will be required to show a passport when traveling to Mexico or the Caribbean. Congress is also pushing to require passports when traveling by land or sea to from the United States to Mexico or Canada by early 2008.  (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images) A badge of pride among frequent travelers, the battered passport could become a relic of the past, as sophisticated technology aims to replace more traditional means of identifying passengers. Australia is steadily working to update its own international processing, with a sort of self-service check out involving face, iris and/or fingerprint scanning designed to take some of the pain out of… Read More