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Cloud passports

From: Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:42:11 +0000
Message-ID: <CAM1Sok2U9O8XMtTAPLn-ZBdNuM3MbKV4EKUWzGWhtteR9pi33Q@mail.gmail.com>
To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Steven De Costa <steven.DeCosta@linkdigital.com.au>, W3C Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org> 
Australia is looking at trialling passport-less travel in a move Foreign
Affairs Minister Julie Bishop predicts will go global.
The idea of cloud passports is the result of a hipster-style-hackathon held
at the Department of Foreign Affairs, which culminated in an X-Factor style
audition before the secretary Peter Varghese, Foreign Affairs Minister
Julie Bishop, Assistant Minister Steve Ciobo and Chris Vein from the World
Bank.


Read more:
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-to-trial-cloud-passports-in-worldfirst-move-20151028-gkkkr3.html
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