Do you trust Big Brother?

So I forgot to mention Sara's super efficiency on the laundry front a few weeks ago. On returning from Singapore, she'd lovingly washed all our clothes as soon as we got back, in preparation for our next trip. Unfortunately, she also managed to boil-wash both of our passports. Ironically, I needed a new passport as mine was full of stamps. Now it didn't have any (you'd have thought they'd use fail-safe ink).
Anyway, today was new passport day. Did you know that they now cost 100 quid each? They've also got a somewhat worrying biometric chip glued inside. I wonder what that contains? my DNA profile? details of my Tesco shopping habits? a full set of my primary school report cards?...