Photos: Biometrics up close and personal

RFID tags can be embedded in passports to enable officials to scan passports from a distance. "You don't have much of a choice over e-passports because of US I-CANN legislation. Everyone will have to have an e-passport — the mandate has come from the US," said Bataller. Robert Mocny, the deputy director of US-VISIT, told ZDNet UK in October that the US Department of Homeland Security wants to "biometrify [sic] a good proportion of the world".