Re:Biometrics 101 (Score 1)

This study is interesting, and there are probably some severe implications for vendors. However biometric templates are NOT going to be stored on passports. Biometric *images* are - definitely face, potentially also fingerprint and iris. ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) establishes these standards; they also determine the layout, data formats, etc of physical passports. A country can decide not to go along with ICAO recommendations but that is unlikely. So if one can read the data on the new "biometric" passports, one would be reading images, not templates.