smart card passports

Made mention of this months -- if not a year -- ago. Now, it seems, the Canadian government is ready to announce that it will be issuing a passport with a smart card. Has to stay in the traditional book because of the many, many countries that won't be able to deal with the highest-end technology. G&M story here: Passports to go high-tech with computer chips.

Funny part of this 3-grafer is that the headline notes the chip but the opening sentence focuses on the digitaized photographs. Reason it's funny: Canadian passports have had digitized photos for at least the past two years. HEH [OK, so it's not that funny. ed.]