Checking in for an international flight just got easier as American Airlines launches passport scanning in its mobile app. American is the first airline to offer passport chip scanning that securely transmits passport information directly from the near ...

Apple's new Digital ID will be accepted at TSA checkpoints in more than 250 US airports, but only for domestic travel.

American Airlines passengers are now able to scan their passports onto their mobile apps when they check in to international flights, the company announced Wednesday. Before the airline released the new feature, passengers who checked in to international ...

RFID expert Lukas Grunwald says e-passport readers are vulnerable to sabotage. * Photo: Courtesy of Kim Zetter *A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional ...