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Australia launched their microchip-embedded ePassport today. Apart from the cheesy name (who still calls their stuff ‘eStuff’ nowadays?) and the price hike (AUD 19 more than before… wtf?), what caught my eye was that this will let them use automatic SmartGates for border control at airports, relying solely on face recognition. Is that really reliable? Hong Kong has these automatic gates too (e-Channel… damn, another e-Something), but they use fingerprints for that which is a much more mature technology. Face recognition, I don’t think so mate…