They did not always open biometric passport chips or check details against a list of undesirables.

他们一向很少打开生物特征辨识护照，或者检查细节问题防止带入违禁物品。

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If the person has a reasonable likeness to the photograph—and therefore similar biometric details—a stolen e-passport could readily be accepted.

如果持有人与照片长得够像，有相似的生物体征信息，偷来的电子护照也很容易被认可。

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Stealing a tourist's passport and changing the photo (a tactic favoured by Israel's Mossad) is no longer easy: in future the biometric data on the chip will need to check out too.

偷取旅游者的护照然后更换照片(以色列情报机构惯用伎俩[1])也不再容易：以后芯片上的生物识别数据也同样需要接受检查。

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Previously, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had set a deadline of October 2005 for compliance, but US and European Commission officials have met to discuss accepting a secure digital photograph in lieu of the biometric passport requirements.

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Look, the data that will be held on computers in respect of ID cards is the data that is already held by everybody for everybody in respect of your passport, with the addition of biometric data, fingerprints for example or irises which ensures better the security of this data.

BBC: Jack Straw MP. photo courtesy Jeff Overs

Much of the cost of collecting biometric and personal data has already been shifted to the passport service, on the grounds that passports must meet tougher international standards.

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