The text alerts are part of an electronic passport system launched by the Saudi authorities last year.
Regardless, the Dutch e-passport system is still under development allowing for changes, which makes us wonder, is ours?
Under a passport system covering the European Economic Area (a broader, watered-down version of the European Union), investors were supposedly covered by the Icelandic deposit-insurance scheme.
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"I, as I've looked at this situation, have become more and more convinced that the horse passport system introduced by the EU and implemented by the previous government in this country is actually not as effective as it should be a by a long way, " the minister said.
Microsoft has had to take its ecommerce system, Passport, offline for 48 hours after a programmer in Seattle found a way to steal users' credit card numbers.
Other services that can't be reached include Windowsupdate.com, which contains updates for the Windows operating system, Passport.com, Microsoft's online identification service, and bCentral.com, a portal for small and medium sized businesses.
Then the system asked me to insert my passport so it could optically scan the special set of letters to identify me with the system and transmit the data to the Department of Homeland Security.
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She said a board would be formed to oversee all the organisations in the immigration system - immigration policy, the Passport Service, Border Force and the two new entities.
Sanctions could include cutting funds, extending the monitoring of the judicial system or blocking membership of the Schengen passport-free zone.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri said travel would be granted by an "entry permit system" - rather than a passport - once the identities of travellers are verified.
But the move follows a string of incidents where either security in Passport - or the Hotmail free e-mail system to which it is tightly bound - has proved to be lax.
And even the programmer concerned said that users of Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system, which is irrevocably integrated with Passport as a means of forcing it into the mainstream, would not have been affected.
If deployed, it means that a passport, for example, could be quickly scanned using the system and its laser speckles recorded and encoded in a unique serial number or onto a database before being issued.
Seven years ago Microsoft floated a similar-sounding scheme called Passport that granted users access to any site that agreed to use the same password system.
The airline is expanding its new system to its stations in New Zealand, which will be the first to incorporate passport information.
The Iris Recognition Immigration System allows registered passengers to enter the U.K. without standing in line at passport control.
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