e-passports

India's largest IT-ITeS firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is all set to
tap the emerging business for e-passports across the world, and the company has already bid for pilot projects in a couple of countries.An e-passport makes the document machine-readable making the passport not only tamper-proof but also enabling quick processing at airports.e-passports come with in-built security (biometric) features including an IC (integrated circuit) chip embedded in the back cover that stores the data (including photo) that is typically displayed on the photo page of a regular passport.As of now just 4-5 countries, including the US, use the RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, which at best helps their own countrymen on their return for speedy identification and processing of their documents since it is not universally applicable.