I can read German e-civic iPhones. Our passports can be once

A cell phone may be sufficient to complete the airport check.

IPhone phones with NFC chip and iOS 13 I can read the German electronic identifiers. We know a little longer that the device can scan the chips of Japanese and British identity cards. In reference to the German Home Office, 9to5mac.com speaks about it.

Originally, Apple limited only the functionality of the technology to wireless communications for Apple Pay.

The next step is to approve individual applications in the App Store, which will support the use of the new NFC chip. A foreign server is waiting to authorize official tools from government workshops that decide to provide this functionality to citizens. For example, an airport control that transmits a document or visa in electronic form should be used.

They have their Slovak passports

Contactless chips include Slovak passports since 2008. First, the face was registered and fingerprints were added the following year.

Citizen cards do not have it yet, nor are biometric data. But the European Union has made a proposal according to which this should be done and consider contactless technology.

We have described in the previous articlethat no basic data such as date of birth, expiry date and passport number can be used to communicate with the passport chip. However, fingerprints are much more secure and their access is restricted to customs control personnel – a certified reader and a valid digital certificate.