Poor ID management abroad increases US terror risk

GAO report shows that holes in ID management abroad create terror risk for US (News Track India)

Passport security is described as weak with many countries using no security features, such as biometrics, to prevent fraud.

"Some countries do not have their own database systems with terrorist screening information or access to other countries' terrorist screening information to keep track of biographical and biometric information about individuals who are known or suspected terrorists," Fox News quoted the report, as saying.

Many developing countries, while still lacking rigorous ID management infrastructures, are making great progress. They do this for their own reasons but one of the benefits is that it gives them a way to partner with international law enforcement organizations to their mutual benefit.