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posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 04 2015, @08:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the virtual-travellers-next dept.

Australia is looking at trialling passport-less travel in a move Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop predicts will go global. The idea of cloud passports is the result of a hipster-style-hackathon held at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), which culminated in an X-Factor style audition before the secretary Peter Varghese, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, Assistant Minister Steve Ciobo and Chris Vein from the World Bank.

Under a cloud passport, a traveller's identity and biometrics data would be stored in a cloud, so passengers would no longer need to carry their passports and risk having them lost or stolen. DFAT says 38,718 passports were registered as lost or stolen in 2014-15, consistent with the 38,689 reported missing the previous year.

Australia and New Zealand are now in discussions about trialling cloud passports. Ms Bishop acknowledged there were security requirements that would have to be met in order to store biometrics in the cloud, but told Fairfax Media: "We think it will go global."

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-to-trial-cloud-passports-in-worldfirst-move-20151028-gkkkr3.html

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  • (Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Wednesday November 04 2015, @09:00AM

    by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Wednesday November 04 2015, @09:00AM (#258327)

    The Kiwis pretty much got their shit together.

    If only that were true; we still have so much "not together"; but maybe we are better then the AUstrailians for now, they seem a bit lost at the moment.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 04 2015, @03:18PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 04 2015, @03:18PM (#258381) Journal

    we still have so much "not together"

    Use velcro--can join any number of sheep.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Absolutely.Geek on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:39PM

      by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:39PM (#258478)

      Polygamy is still illegal here

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