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P@ssPort Show and Tell
an open framework that allows travelers to leave traces of footprint
passport manufactuer "news.china.com: visiting passport manufacturing location. 2012 May 15th.
Workers are using machines to produce passports, since this day (May 15th) the national entry exit bureau issues electronic passport. new passport stores digital personal information, a chip is embedded to the passport. other than that physical "anti-counterfeit" technologies are stronger compared to previous editions.
passport now produced by China entirely
A German company Bundesdruckerei transfer its 25%stock shares to its Chinese collaborator, ending 16 years of collaboration.
ID printing contains large amount of personal data, including bio-information such as photos and fingerprints. European countries such as Germany, France, Spain, and Italy produces passports on their own. Some countries purchases parts (chip for example); some countries outsource the production entirely such as Monaco and Lichtenstein.
The German collaboration is unable to resume due to new Chinese law stating that companies comprised with foreign capital cannot manufacture products that pertains to security.