Is it me?

[The_Laird]

Originally Posted by mattylondon

The yellow label has an tiny RFID on the reverse. This is to electrically tag your passport through its manufacture and delivery to you.

Well, as we all keep saying, every day's a school day!

Two further questions:

1. What's an RFID?
2. Where is it in the new passports? My wife's passport (5 years older than mine) has a device that takes up most of a page, but there's nothing similar on my new one.

[PsYcHe]

RFID - Radio Frequency ID.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-f...identification

If you look 'through' the photo page, you should see the chip if I remember rightly.

[ScottD3]

Same system used in our keys for the immobilizer.

[Conquistador]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31042477

Worth a read. The future?

[ScottD3]

Yup.

I read something many years ago about a kid to got the chips fitted to his family for their home.

Its the way its going to go I think.
Bit like chipping your pets.
Soon you'll be chipping your children.

[mattylondon]

Originally Posted by ScottD3

Soon you'll be chipping your children.

Yep. Extract from Kevin Warwick, aka Captain Cyborg, wiki

Tracking Device

A controversy arose in August 2002, shortly after the Soham murders, when Warwick reportedly offered to implant a tracking device into an 11-year-old girl as an anti-abduction measure. The plan produced a mixed reaction, with support from many worried parents but ethical concerns from a number of children's societies. As a result, the idea did not go ahead.

Anti-theft RFID chips are common in jewellery or clothing in some Latin American countries due to a high abduction rate, and the company VeriChip announced plans in 2001 to expand its line of available medical information implants, to be GPS trackable when combined with a separate GPS device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warwick

[The_Laird]

Originally Posted by PsYcHe

If you look 'through' the photo page, you should see the chip if I remember rightly.

I suppose if I knew what I was looking for it would help!

There's a symbol that looks like a compass with a lot of concentric circles radiating from it...

[roboblob]

Originally Posted by ScottD3

Yup.

I read something many years ago about a kid to got the chips fitted to his family for their home.

Do you have to chop of parts of your body when you hand in the keys if you move house ?

[steamship]

Originally Posted by roboblob

Do you have to chop of parts of your body when you hand in the keys if you move house ?

So which one opens the front door?

[ScottD3]