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New passport colour and design- non political post
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't care what bloody colour it is but they need to lower the price! Especially if they decide we need to change it before they run out "just because""
£7 a year for a passport is peanuts really compared to the cost of actually going abroad |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My first Passport was black 
Did it have skull and crossbones on it? 
lol..... no but it used to accompany my seaman discharge book "
Whenever I look at you... semem discharge does come to mind! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My first Passport was black
Did it have skull and crossbones on it?
lol..... no but it used to accompany my seaman discharge book
Whenever I look at you... semem discharge does come to mind!"
Filthy fucker |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Now we have the opportunity to change it, what should it be?
Stay burgundy?
Go back to blue?
I'd like purple or a rainbow one "
I understand why they are reintroducing the old colour, however I think a biometric ID card would be better lump 'em all into one passport, ni, driving etc. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Now we have the opportunity to change it, what should it be?
Stay burgundy?
Go back to blue?
I'd like purple or a rainbow one
I understand why they are reintroducing the old colour, however I think a biometric ID card would be better lump 'em all into one passport, ni, driving etc."
Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us. |
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Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us."
Don't give anyone ideas about that.
Goodness they'll be able to track you with something like a chip implant. |
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"Now we have the opportunity to change it, what should it be?
Stay burgundy?
Go back to blue?
I'd like purple or a rainbow one
I understand why they are reintroducing the old colour, however I think a biometric ID card would be better lump 'em all into one passport, ni, driving etc.
Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us."
No, it just proves that passport is yours, based on more than a grainy crappy photo. Loads of countries have fingerprint scanners at passport control. The existing one has biometrics in it, not sure what features it uses though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Now we have the opportunity to change it, what should it be?
Stay burgundy?
Go back to blue?
I'd like purple or a rainbow one
I understand why they are reintroducing the old colour, however I think a biometric ID card would be better lump 'em all into one passport, ni, driving etc.
Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us.
No, it just proves that passport is yours, based on more than a grainy crappy photo. Loads of countries have fingerprint scanners at passport control. The existing one has biometrics in it, not sure what features it uses though."
The photo has done well enough so far.
And the chip in the new passports....bet that could be replaced with something that can be tracked |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Now we have the opportunity to change it, what should it be?
Stay burgundy?
Go back to blue?
I'd like purple or a rainbow one
I understand why they are reintroducing the old colour, however I think a biometric ID card would be better lump 'em all into one passport, ni, driving etc.
Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us.
No, it just proves that passport is yours, based on more than a grainy crappy photo. Loads of countries have fingerprint scanners at passport control. The existing one has biometrics in it, not sure what features it uses though."
Very many features. The current British passport design has approx 150 security features in it; some are visible to the naked eye, some are very subtle and some are known only to the border agencies. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"lumping all the documents together on one handy credit card sized piece of plastic would be an identity thiefs dream."
Would also be a right bugger when you turn up at a club and they ask for 2 forms of ID |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We should emboss the face of Sir David Attenborough on the front.
That is all we need.
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cute thought... but we're more likely to end up with two crossed claw hammers like in the pink floyd film The Wall  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us."
Also they don't actually work, yes fingerprints are frequently different, but a scanned fingerprint is something like 1 in 10,000 chance it belongs to you. Pretty good odds when compared to car key variance, but a bit pants when billions of people are travelling.
Iris scans are pretty poor when people have been travelling all night in a pressurised tube too.
I do wonder about the new palm reader border controls when I never had my palm read to get the passport in the first place... |
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By *ptimusDMan
over a year ago
Birmingham |
Whatever colour, format or cost the passport ends up being, it will be made in the EU as the 2 shortlisted companies from those that put in bids for the contract are in Europe. One of them is French and they're the favourites.
Bloody ironic if you ask me  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Whatever colour, format or cost the passport ends up being, it will be made in the EU as the 2 shortlisted companies from those that put in bids for the contract are in Europe. One of them is French and they're the favourites.
Bloody ironic if you ask me "
Will they give us a discount if we have a circle of stars as the logo?  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Whatever colour, format or cost the passport ends up being, it will be made in the EU as the 2 shortlisted companies from those that put in bids for the contract are in Europe. One of them is French and they're the favourites.
Bloody ironic if you ask me "
Not really. We are looking at trading with Europe aint we?
A Union Jack design would look cool |
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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago
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"Whatever colour, format or cost the passport ends up being, it will be made in the EU as the 2 shortlisted companies from those that put in bids for the contract are in Europe. One of them is French and they're the favourites.
Bloody ironic if you ask me "
The Sunday Times reported this, and they haven't got a very good track record on stories recently.
If you believe their story, there are actually three companies on the shortlist. Unnamed french and German and one UK, De La Rue.
De La Rue will be announced before Christmas as the successful company. |
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"Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us.
Also they don't actually work, yes fingerprints are frequently different, but a scanned fingerprint is something like 1 in 10,000 chance it belongs to you. "
So, as well as looking similar the person would also need the 1 in 10,000 chance of similiar enough prints. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Not a fan of biometrics.....just a couple of steps away from having a chip implanted in us.
Also they don't actually work, yes fingerprints are frequently different, but a scanned fingerprint is something like 1 in 10,000 chance it belongs to you.
So, as well as looking similar the person would also need the 1 in 10,000 chance of similiar enough prints."
As long as there is nothing on the scanner which reduces the ratio massively and the photo isn't the size of the driving license photo... ID is still a human skill |
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