Comments on: Passports passe in United Arab Emirates

Holders of Dubai's e-gate border control card can skip the passport line, swipe their card, leave a fingerprint and be on their way.

[Marcus Westrup]

A passport by any other name

This is a government issued document, used by international travelers to authenticate themselves at a border checkpoint.
Why not just call it an electronic passport?

[esananes]

Available in Tel-Aviv Israel since 5 years

CNET reporter should have made his homework better. A hand recognition based-system is available in Tel-Aviv airport since 5 years.
No need for passport - just swipe your card and place your hand in the optical reader.

[AbuAnas]

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H guess he did his homework and found that Dubai is the new area for Technology and buisness BOOM - so it gets its place in CNET, while Tel-Aviv is the new bombs boom, so may it should be mentioned somewhere else.

:)

[sbartelski]

Singapore since 1998

whatls the big deal, Singapore started this in 1998 (or even earlier). Not sure what extra facilities they now have attached to the card.