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Belgium goofs up on electronic passport, embeds chip in the wrong ID card

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The manufacturer of the Belgium electronic identification cards Zetes has goofed up, embedding the wrong chip in it least two of the cards.

The error was discovered when 25-year-old Pam Helssen tried to check into a camping site in Spain, where she was told that: "According to your card, you're a boy," she was quoted saying in the Gazet van Antwerpen.

31 Aug 2006

The information on the chip belongs to a Wesley Meynendonck, who was born in the same year and lives in the same village. His ID card has a chip with Helssen's information on it.

Local authorities claim that there are checks in place to prevent errors like this one, but those obviously have failed. It shows that even though technology can be perfect, humans will always make mistakes.

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<p>jules - in this case,probably, just as you need to show ID in a hotel.</p> <p>i don't have an ID card with a chip in it yet as they came out the year after i had to renew my present one - which lasts 10 years. phew!</p>

Posted by: zed 12 Sep 2006

<p>So in the EU one needs an ID card to go camping!</p>

Posted by: Jules 04 Sep 2006

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