Who cares about iris and fingerprint scanning when immigration officials may already be collecting and disseminating data associated to our Passports to all an sundry without our knowledge?
I was told of a case in CX a few years ago where a cockpit crewmember was stopped by a US Immigration Officer and asked if he knew what information was contained on his Passport details. The Immigration Officer was quite irate that the crewmember had data on his Passport that identified him as "a Union Activist" without the crewmember's knowledge. The Officer insisted that the incredulous crewmember had "a right to know".
Was this data on his Passport, or is there a "shared" information system between some countries?
Do you know what secret data will come up when your Passport is read?
It would be good if someone knowledgeable could comment...
Last edited by FlexibleResponse; 18th Dec 2007 at 13:00.