{"id":594,"date":"2025-02-18T16:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/?p=594"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:37:08","slug":"epassports-more-secure-reduce-the-risk-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/epassports-more-secure-reduce-the-risk-of-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"ePassports\u2026 More Secure, Reduce the Risk of Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Secure, Convenient 10-Year ePassport Available Now<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Calgary, July 2, 2013 \u2014 Canada&#8217;s new and more secure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/immigration-refugees-citizenship\/services\/canadian-passports\/help-centre\/e-passport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10-year ePassport<\/a> is now available to Canadians, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><br>The new, 10-year ePassport provides more convenience for Canadians, and facilitates safe, secure travel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">which, in turn, helps create jobs, growth and long-term prosperity for Canadians,\u00a0said Minister <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Kenney.\u00a0The Canadian passport is not only a privilege of citizenship, but a reflection of the rights and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">responsibilities of citizenship.<br><br>ePassports are the international norm in travel documents. They contain technologically-advanced <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">features, including an embedded electronic chip, to prevent fraud. The chip stores the same personal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">information as that which is recorded on the second page of the passport (except for the signature) as <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">well as a photo and a digital security feature that proves that the passport was issued by the Government<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"> of Canada. To combat fraud, once the personal information is stored on the chip, it cannot be modified <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">without invalidating the passport.<br><br>For more information and to read the complete News Release, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/201307\/canada-debuts-new-epassport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE.<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasbruce.com\/\">Thomas Bruce Studio of Photography<\/a> in the Tampa Bay area is offering our Canadian friends and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">residents high quality Canadian Passport Photos in less than 15 minutes. Located at 2227 49th St. N., <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">(parking and entrance in the back), they are the Tampa Bay area&#8217;s Passport Photo Studio of choice among <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">all foreign passport requests. <strong>Call for an appointment at 727-577-5626.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biometric-Image-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11336\" style=\"width:443px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[199,123],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-passports","tag-digital-passport-photo","tag-epassport-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/11338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}