Topic | Information security | The Sydney Morning Herald

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Information security

Australian passports have sophisticated security features, but once you have provided its details to a third party, you’ve lost control of that data.

Do travel companies really need scans of our passports?

The recent data breach of thousands of Australians’ passports begs the question whether some travel operators actually need this amount of information.

  • by Michael Gebicki