Small UK town to test biometric passports

A trial of the biometric technology to be used from 2006 in the UK's next-generation passport cards is to begin later this year in an unnamed small town. In line with Civil Aviation Authority rules, the Passport Service must have biometric chips--containing fingerprint or iris data--embedded into British passports by 2005, with the service's overall strategy of introducing a biometric 'passport card' in place by 2006.