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The Biometric Passport (Autosaved)
The Biometric Passport (Autosaved)
• African Union, Decision on free movement of persons and the African passport, Assembly/au/dec.607 Revised
Draft, AU Guidelines for the Design, Production and Issuance of the African Passport, Africa Free Trade
Agreement.
• ICAO, ISO Standards: Machine Readable, 14443,
• EAC Joint Communique 17th Ordinary Summit by Heads of State, Common Market Protocol,
• The Immigration Sub-Sub Committee & other Experts Consultative Meeting on Free Movement of Persons &
implementation of the African Passport (The SADC Protocol on Facilitation of the Movement of Persons of
2005)
• CEMAC/ECCAS, 10th Summit of Heads of State 2010, ECCAS Protocol on Freedom of Movement
• ECOWAS/979 Protocol A/P.1/5/79 relating to Free Movement of Persons, Residence and Establishment
• Arab Maghreb Union Free of Movement Protocol, The Arab Maghreb Union Treaty,
• Muhochi v Attorney General of Uganda;
Data Protection in Africa
• Cloning
• Brute force attacks
• Skimming
• Eavesdropping
• Clandestine Scaning and Tracking
• Data Leakage
• Identity Theft, Jans Krissler made biometrics using public figures photographs. Nigerian passport culprits in the US.
• Weaknesses in the ICAO Standard (Passive authentication and Active Authentication can be breached.)
• Calderoni, Luca & Maio, Dario. (2014). Cloning and tampering threats in e-Passports
EU DEVELOPMENT, CASE LAW.
• Harmonisation
• Cryptography, invest more in technology. (Independent cryptographic
research)
• Independence of DPAs’.
• Demand reciprocity and interoperability from European states.
• Design and manufacture passports within the continent.
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