The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) is not concerned about reports from the U.K. that say RFID (radio frequency ID) chips in passports can be cracked in as little as 48 hours.

Canadians won’t have to go through the hassles of renewing their passports every five years again. With the launch of a new 10-year passport on Tuesday, Canada also joined over 100 other ...

Canada’s long-delayed new electronic passports will feature extra security embedded into watermarks of historical and sports scenes as well as a computer chip and a five- or 10-year option.

Canada is the last G7 country to adopt chip-enhanced passports; over 100 countries, including the U.S., France, Germany and the U.K. already employ ePassports.

OTTAWA Canada’s passports are being updated to include chip technology and watermark images designed to prevent fraud, but are also going to cost a lot more. The new passports will have computer ...

New passports will be rolled out starting this July, however, Karina Gould, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, says that "Some Canadians will still receive the older version of ...

The Passport Canada survey said about 55,000 Canadian passports were lost or stolen in 2008-2009. The country issued 4.38 million passports in the same period.

The new passports will have computer chips embedded – technology that’s already used in almost 100 other countries, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Friday.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the new passports will have computer chips embedded in them, and blank pages will contain watermarks By The Canadian Press Published Oct 26, 2012 1 minute read ...