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Creating confidence
The sovereignty of a State entails the duty to protect the identity of its citizens. The challenge is to create a successful trusted digital...
Legal identity of a citizen
In this article, Alenka Prvinšek Persoglio addresses some aspects related to the development of the concept of legal identity of a natural person and...
Security by Design: Monochrome Colour Gamut
Joel Zlotnick, Jordan Brough and Troy Eberhardt
In Part 1 of this series, the authors described why colour and other artwork cues can help counterfeiters...
Digital travel credentials
Digital disruption continues to reinvent our expectations on how we transact and interact with the world around us. In our increasingly digital world we...
Documentless identification
Mobile ID is the latest and biggest buzzword in the identification industry. Far from being a clearly defined term, though, ‘mobile ID’ describes many...
Keesing Journal 51
Editorial:
Proven versus new
Practical experience:
Biometric identifiers for refugees
Political context and ethical challenges
Design:
See-through register security feature
Obsolete or...
Keesing Journal 50
Editorial:
Safety and security are out of reach
Special tribute:
Identity & Document: more than business talk
Special tribute to the 50th...
Keesing Journal 49
Editorial:
Safety and security are out of reach
Innovation:
DNB’s authentication app for euro notes
Genuine or counterfeit? The answer is in...
Security by Design: Colour & Split Fountains
Joel Zlotnick, Jordan Brough and Troy Eberhardt
Line art, microprinting, guilloche patterns, security halftones, transparent register and other features based on printed artwork are common...
DICE – the banknote of the future
Since time immemorial, cash has determined our social and economic life, with all its related risks and problems, such as enabling crime. Apart from...
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...
