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Emergency travel documents
As security features for travel documents, MRTDs and especially e‑Passports are nowadays much more difficult to counterfeit, fraudsters are increasingly seeking out weaker points...
Beyond line artwork
Joel Zlotnick, Jordan Brough and Troy Eberhardt
Commercial dot halftone patterns are often avoided in security design in favour of custom line artwork for two...
Near-infrared active personalisation
Modern polycarbonate identity documents have been approved in many countries due to the material’s exceptional mechanical and optical properties and fraud resistance. The manufacturers...
Plasmonic metamaterials
Metamaterials, artificial composites with properties not found in nature, have revolutionised the way to control electromagnetic radiation. When implemented at infrared and visible frequencies,...
Designing identity documents
In recent years, identity document issuance solutions have undergone significant advances, incorporating a wave of new technologies that enable identity documents to be more...
The weakest link
Presenting a genuine and authentic travel, residence and/or identity document is no guarantee of the true identity of the holder. The weakest link in...
Official and diplomatic travel documents
Official and diplomatic travel documents do not fit the mould of citizen documents. How do issuance authorities cope with managing these documents to ensure...
Hand geometry recognition
Hand geometry recognition is one of the oldest biometric technologies today; in fact, it is even older than that of fingerprint recognition. It is...
US Biometric and identity intelligence programme
In the final article of this series, Joshua Steinhauer discusses three important areas that should
be considered when evaluating the benefit of establishing a full...
The permanence of a person’s status
A person’s identity has multifaceted aspects. It includes the classic elements of identification (such as name, surname and date of birth), but also the...
Kenya Kicks Off Digital Identity Pilot Program [Update]
Update: Just a month after Kenya launched the rollout its new digital identity pilot program, the country’s High Court has ordered the process be...
The UAE Introduces a New 500-Dirham Polymer Banknote
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has announced the issuance of a new AED 500 (500-Dirham) banknote made of polymer. The announcement came...
Biometric Technologies of the Future: Earlobe Recognition
Expert author Ravi Das has, in previous articles, described DNA recognition and Gait recognition as physical biometric technologies of the future. Here, he presents...
Argentina Upgrades Its Relatively New 2,000-Pesos Banknote
On November 7, just months after issuing its first 2,000-pesos banknote, the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA) has put into circulation an...
Busted: Belgian-Greek Network Smuggling Migrants with fake IDs
The following news story was released by Europe’s Border Security Report earlier this month.
Authorities in Belgium and Greece have dismantled a network that was...
