{"id":933764,"date":"2025-05-26T07:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933764"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:59:26","slug":"the-high-tech-passports-india-embraces-digital-identity-joining-global-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/26\/the-high-tech-passports-india-embraces-digital-identity-joining-global-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The high-tech passports: India embraces digital identity joining global movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an age where security, speed, and seamlessness are the benchmarks of global mobility, the passport has become more than a mere travel document. It\u2019s on its way to becoming a digital identity instrument and India has made a crucial move in that direction. In 2025, India officially became part of 140 countries, such as the United States, Canada, France, Japan, and Australia, by issuing biometric e-passports to its citizens. This important upgrade is not cosmetic; it facilitates India to enhance identity authentication and provide streamlined global travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an age where security, speed, and seamlessness are the benchmarks of global mobility, the passport has become more than a mere travel document. It\u2019s on its way to becoming a digital identity instrument and India has made a crucial move in that direction. In 2025, India officially became part of 140 countries, such as the United States, Canada, France, Japan, and Australia, by issuing biometric e-passports to its citizens. This important upgrade is not cosmetic; it facilitates India to enhance identity authentication and provide streamlined global travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}