Monthly Archives: December 2019
Ukraine trials digital IDs
In order to create digital IDs for citizens of Ukraine, the country’s Cabinet of Ministers has launched a pilot project.
The press service of the...
Retinal recognition: pros and cons
In Part 1 of this series, Ravi Das looked at an overview into and the process of retinal recognition, which he describes as the...
Thousands of fake IDs seized in USA
Federal officers of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently seized nearly 3000 fake driver’s licences and almost 3200 blank card stocks to...
E-passports coming to Malawi in 2020
Malawi will release a new electronic passport at the beginning of 2020.
Joseph Chauwa, spokesperson of Immigration Department, said that the usual passport booklets will...
Ukraine updates 50- and 200-hryvnia banknotes
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will put 5- and 10-hryvnia coins into circulation to gradually replace paper banknotes of the same denomination.
At the...
Romania has new 100-lei banknote
The National Bank of Romania has put a gold coin and a commemorative collector banknote into circulation.
According to the bank, the coin is dedicated...
Trinidad and Tobago gets new $100 bill
The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago has introduced a new $100 bill as legal tender.
The bank says the new banknote is based on...
Milestones in 100 years of the passport photo
2015 was the 100th anniversary of the passport photo, but it was unfortunately not much communicated or even celebrated. Only the British newspaper The...
Singapore airport trials iris, facial recognition
Some returning Singaporeans at Changi Airport Terminal 4 no longer need to produce their passports to clear immigration.
This forms part of a six-month trial...
Qualcomm, Google work on on-phone ID card API’s
During the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm’s Jesse Seed, senior director of product management security, and Google’s Sudhi Herle, head of Android platform...
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New Cuban Banknote Family Honors Historical Heroines
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Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography in Identity Documents
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