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...
Strategies for optimisation of security fibres
Joel Zlotnick, Traci Moran and Tyra McConnell
Counterfeit Deterrence Laboratory
Office of Fraud Prevention Programmes
Bureau of Consular Affairs
US Department of State
Security fibres and planchettes are among...
Current and valid passports on eBay
As a historian and collector of old passports, eBay is, of course, one of the sources where I find my collectibles, but also relevant...
FIDO: A secure alternative for electronic IDs?
Dr Bernd Zwattendorfer & Navneeta Deo
Infineon Technologies
Electronic IDs (eIDs) are typically the means of choice for securing online identification and authentication processes in data-sensitive...
EU initiatives in the ID document domain
In 2016, the EU Commission published its ‘Action plan to strengthen the European response to travel document fraud’. This article will discuss some major...
