FINANCIAL SERVICES & RETAIL ENTERPRISE INTERNET CONTENT PROVIDERS PUBLIC SECTOR & TRANSPORT>CASE STUDY TELECOMMUNICATIONS Electronic Passport France - 1,000,000 ePassports in just 5 months> The context: US and EU deadlines After intensive debates in 2003 and 2004, the National Commission for Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) – France’s independent official data protection watchdog – gave the green light to the French electronic passport project in November 2005. In 2006, the French government began to roll out its electronic passports in order to comply with the strict US Visa Waiver Program and European Union deadlines. The new travel document stores the holder’s facial image in a microprocessor and meets the strict standards defined by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO

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