Monthly Archives: February 2019
The gateway to identities misuse
The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the Registry of Motor Vehicles or the Bureau of Motor Vehicles: regardless of the naming of the agency...
The Estonian eID: a joint effort
The first generation of Estonian eID cards was issued in 2002. Since then, there have been three generations of cards. Preparations for the fourth...
Why nationality is not always clear-cut
Over the past ten years, there has been rising concern around several nationality-related issues. Nationality is closely related to the mobility of people and...
Big data: from marketing to safer streets
Intelligence-led policing has been around since the 1990s, but as elements such as profiling are still controversial and there are no universally established procedures...
Identity Threat Assessment and Prediction (ITAP)
Identity theft, fraud and related crimes are increasingly common occurrences. The Center for Identity at The University of Texas (UT CID) is studying these...
Optical machine authentication of security documents
In the first part of this publication, we discussed the latest two major international standardisation activities on the topic of optical machine authentication of...
Big Banknote Data
The Bank of Canada has recently begun collecting data on all individual notes processed by their high-speed sorting equipment, and now houses over a...
LIVE BLOG: New Mexico now offers mobile ID app and more news…
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Optimizing Serialization: Part 5
This series about serial number optimization has covered letterpress, ink properties, font design, and position dependence. Two deficiencies of the position dependence concepts as...
Covestro unveils polymeric substrate for security printing
Covestro made the following announcement on November 29, 2024.
Covestro is excited to introduce CERTEVO, an innovative polymeric printing substrate. It is designed for advanced...
Argentina Releases a New 20,000-Pesos Banknote
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) put a new $20,000 banknote into circulation on November 13, 2024. Argentina’s ongoing high inflation rate...
Will Government Agencies Embrace the Zero Trust Framework?
Biometric Update recently reported that “Data is the new security perimeter. That notion is the foundation of a new document from the U.S. executive...
