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Veridos launches new security features for transparent windows on ID cards and passport data pages
Veridos, the global provider of integrated identity solutions, is set to unveil its innovative new security features specifically targeting the transparent window areas on ID documents: Amber ID, Diamond ID and Spectre ID.
While the trend in recent years has been to use transparent elements on polycarbonate ID documents, Veridos aims to further enhance these security features by adding more complexity. The goal is to produce documents that are easy to verify and at the same time difficult to duplicate. With the aim of protecting ID documents against counterfeiting, Amber ID, Diamond ID and Spectre ID are the latest in a long list of new techniques and technologies developed by Veridos in the field of document security.
Amber ID appears as a metallic, optically variable window with a positive-brilliant photo of the document owner. When backlit, the window with the motif becomes almost transparent, while in front light it looks like a golden metal leaf that turns green depending on the viewing angle. As the pigments are integrated and not printed, it is the ideal solution for a brilliant personalsation in a transparent window.
The Diamond ID feature helps to unambiguously verify questionable documents. It is fully transparent in day light, while it glows brilliant white under UV light in synergies with laser engraving, thanks to special smart colour technology developed in collaboration with C.S.T (Crime Science Technology).
Spectre ID, on the other hand, is a further development of Veridos’ well-known Magic ID feature, which sets static images in motion. When the card is tilted, the images appear to move. Thanks to Spectre ID, this effect can now also be applied to the transparent window areas of cards and data pages in combination with the repeated holder’s image.
As the latest generation of transparent security elements, the new functions embody an evolution for ID documents. A modular system makes it possible to combine these functions. This also applies to Veridos’ “Look ID” feature, the transparent stripe, spanning the entire data page, which is used in the current passport of Latvia for example.
Thanks to the variety of options for securing transparent windows and the built-in technologies, document forgery becomes more difficult and it’s detection more easy. Furthermore, Veridos’ use of polycarbonate ensures complete fusion of the plastic layers in each card, making it very difficult to manipulate materials or security attributes without leaving visible traces.
“With our new security features, we are armed with a whole range of countermeasures to address the threat of counterfeit identity documents,” explains Andreas Kuba, Global Vice President Identity Documents at Veridos. “In that way, we are helping to limit identity theft and also responding to the market demand for innovative security features for transparent elements of polycarbonate ID cards and passport data pages. In addition to pioneering new technologies for forgery-proof documents, we are focusing on their quick and easy implementation.”
Amber ID appears as a metallic POI window with a positive-brilliant photo of the document owner. under the corresponding
The Diamond ID feature helps to unambiguously verify questionable documents.
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FIA Pakistan seizes five passports with changed photographs
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from Pakistan carried out a raid against a gang in Peshawar that was sending Afghan nationals to Saudi Arabia and other countries using fake Pakistani passports.
The FIA seized five passports with changed photographs from the suspects and registered an FIR under the corresponding section of the law against them.
The FIA also arrested 12 people from the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi for traveling abroad on forged visa.
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Costa Rica: the art of passport security
One of Central America’s most progressive countries, Costa Rica has rolled out a new biometric passport that embodies state-of-the-art security and imaging technologies – as well striking artwork that reflects the nation’s biodiversity and values.
Although ePassports are now available in about 160 countries worldwide1, a surprising number of the nations clustered around the Caribbean still rely on older-style machine-readable passports. At least 20 countries in the region have yet to make the leap to biometric passports, even though most have plans to do so. And for good reason.
Machine-readable passports without a chip encoded with the passport holder’s biometric details create challenges for security and convenience. Without this chip, these non-ePassports are more susceptible to forgery and fraud and rely on manual processes for verifying identity – this slows border checks, frustrating travelers’ journeys.
Innovation in identity verification
As one of the most progressive countries in the region, Costa Rica embraced the modernization of its passport and ID technology in 2021, just as the nation – along with much of the rest of Central America – reached the 200-year anniversary of independence from Spain.
Costa Rica’s Biometric Bicentennial Passport, as the initiative is known, has been as ambitious as it has been innovative.
Drawing on the dual expertise of integrated identity solutions provider Veridos and Latin American systems integrator GSI Sertracen, the country’s General Directorate of Migration and Immigration (DGME) commissioned a holistic next-generation passport system that comprises:
- the creation, personalization, and issuance of new electronic passports and
- a biometric verification system through which new passport applicants’ biometric data is enrolled and encoded on their passport’s chip and data page.
Simple, secure process
The technology from Veridos makes the process of obtaining a new passport simple, quick, and secure. When a citizen applies for a passport, their fingerprints and facial image are captured electronically at either the Directorate’s offices, the Bank of Costa Rica, a post office, or one of the country’s consulates around the world, with those details stored in a secure database hosted by the Costa Rican government.
The biometric data is then saved to a chip in the cover of a citizen’s passport, providing the ability for border teams to quickly perform identity verification. That also makes the passport fully compliant with global standards for identification.
The passport’s pages feature more than 60 other security features, including holographic effects, microtext, security threads, intaglio, latent images, relief patterns, multiple laser images, and flipbook animations – some visible to the human eye, others not. But some of the most innovative elements sit within the passport’s main data page.
By using polycarbonate (rather than cotton-based paper), the passport’s all-important data page has been made highly durable, to the point where it will outlast the expiry of any passport. But it also means that security features can be directly embedded into different layers of the polycarbonate page, making it virtually impossible to counterfeit.
Taking advantage of the properties of polycarbonate, the new Costa Rica data page features multiple laser-engraved images and security features, including a transparent portrait window and a holographic strip. “It is the first passport in the whole of the Americas region to include a true color photo on a polycarbonate page,” highlights José Rolando Colchado, Managing Director of Veridos Mexico. The technical feat of creating a bright, clear image on polycarbonate was achieved through the use of Veridos’ highly innovative Clip ID technology. And it’s a passport technology that is already well-proven, having been in use across Bangladesh’s 72 domestic passport offices since 2020.
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What is new?
When securing ID documents, protecting the holder’s portrait is a priority. The secondary portrait validates the main portrait, thus confirming the identity of the document holder. Interlinking both images makes forgery almost impossible, deterring any attempts at tampering with the ID document.
Based on two proven ID security features - LASINKTM Origin color portrait and Stereo Laser Image (SLI) 3D effect. LASINKTM 3D, offers enhanced security levels to protect the portrait. This color secondary portrait is embedded in a transparant window, Its unique motion and depth effects make the authentication of polycarbonate ID documents unambiguous.
Easy to inspect for untrained individuals, LASINKTM3d is also hard to reproduce. Generated with an exclusive personalization algorithm and laser engraved into the heart of the polycarbonate structure, LASINKTM 3D security features are nearly impossible to reproduce or forge. As an exclusive ID security software is needed to produce LASINKTM 3D, any attempt to personalize the picture or create the optical effects using equipment widely available on the market is prevented.
BANGLADESH is the first country in South Asia to open e-gates for e-passports.
Passengers possessing e-passports will now be able to complete immigration processes in only 18 seconds, thanks to the installation of e-gates at Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. (HSIA)
Covert security features can only be detected by banknote issuing authorities using special "black box" sensors that are only available to central banks. This means that criminals have no way of knowing if a banknote denomination has a covert security feature. They also have no way of reverse engineering such a feature and no way of attempting to counterfeit it using trial and error.
This means that covert security features provide the definitive final protection for banknotes. They are ideal for central banks facing threats from organised criminals, terrorists and hostile states, acting as the last line of defence to protect the integrity of currency.
SAFEGUARD® ASSURE™ is the ultimate covert security feature for polymer banknotes. It is embedded into the very core of the polymer film so banknotes designed with SAFEGUARD® ASSURE™ can be authenticated no matter how worn or old the banknote is.
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Turkey’s interior minister announced on May 10 that Turkey will issue a new passport from August this year.
In addition to the usual security features such as UV ink and micro text, the passport will be provided with a relatively new security feature.
This concerns OVM. A new state-of-art technology developed by the French company CST (Crime Science Technology). An important technical feature in OVM is the color shifting. By holding the transparant part against a light or dark background there is a clear visible color difference. (first line). The color difference will also occur when using a UV light source (second line).
In our view a security feature that is easy to check and difficult to forge.
For more information about this new Turkish passport, please go to:
Https://Inkd.in/eEeNuDf6
PM to launch E-Passport facility today: Sheikh Rashid
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan would launch E-Passport facility on Wednesday.
Electronic chip would be used in the new biometric passport, he said in a statement issued here. He said 29 latest new security features have been added to the E-Passport. It would be the biggest up-gradation of Pakistani travel document since 2004, he added.
The minister said the E-Passport holder would take benefit of E-gate facility at all airports around the world. Initially, E-Passport facility would be available for diplomatic and government officials, he added.
Below is a recording of the “Night Watch”, by the painter Rembrandt. This painting can be admired in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. What is so special about this shot. Never before has a painting been reproduced in such detail. The recording is made up of 8430 photos. Each photo measures 5.5 by 4.1 centimeters. That’s what makes this shot so unique and detailed.
Mexico has begun issuing an electronic passport. All previous versions will remain valid until their expiry date. The new design includes many changes and the following images illustrate some of the quick-check features.
Tactile features
Multiple Laser Image (MLI)
Watermark and Security Thread
Optically variable ink
Optically Variable Device (OVD)
Laser perforated number
Background printing with offset, rainbow and microtext
Laser engraved personalization
For passports issued to minors: photos and biographical data of parents/guardians are printed (by inkjet) on page 1.
UV-ink reaction
The Dominican Republic has begun issuing a new passport
The Dominican Republic has begun issuing a new passport. All previous versions will remain valid until their expiry date. The new design includes many changes and the following images illustrate some of the quick-check features.
Optically Variable Ink
See through Register
Watermark
Visible fibers
Laser perforated number
Intaglio printing with latent image
Background printing with offset, rainbow and microtext
Collated page numbers
UV-ink reaction
As you, as a visitor of this website, will probably know that the innovation in the field of security features in (e) ID documents does not stand still. All these new security features are listed in the latest edition of the book 'Basic knowledge document recognition - plus', written by senior document expert Joop Hollegie.This new version is expected to be released in September 2021. In order to enable the reading of the book and this website, Joop and I will mention the current new security features and other related information on this website as much as possible.
The first current article we can offer is already listed below.
Proof of concept
Innovative, locally produced ePassports in Bangladesh
CLIP ID is being used in the new ePassport issued in Bangladesh. With more than 160 million inhabitants, Bangladesh is the world’s eight most populous country and will produce the highest output of passports with color photos worldwide. Learn how Bangladesh will benefit from locally produced ePassports, its own in-country product sites, and state-of-the-art ID and border control infrastructure.
Hundreds of false passports confiscated in Athens.
After a Police operation, last week in the center of the Greek capital, two Afghans, 19 and 26 years old, were arrested with suitcases containing hundreds of forged ID documents.
- 707 passports from different countries
- 358 ID cards from different countries
- 57 residence permits
- 36 driving licenses
- 18 stolen Greek ID’s
EU’s data exchange channel to be based in Tallinn, Estonia
The Committee of Permanent Representatives at the Council of the European Union – also known as COREPER – has approved the Estonian capital, Tallinn, as the seat of the EU judicial cross-border data exchange channel e-CODEX.
The data exchange channel is to be located at the EU’s IT agency, eu-LISA, that is based in Tallinn.
According to the Estonian justice minister, Maris Lauri, the platform will allow for easier and more convenient exchange of data with different member states in both civil and criminal matters.
“This, in turn, will bring legal possibilities closer to citizens, businesses, lawyers and public officials,” the minister said in a statement.
The further development and management of the system will take place at eu-LISA in Estonia. This will lead to the expansion of eu-LISA in Tallinn, including the creation of additional jobs, the ministry added.
The e-CODEX platform is designed to make cross-border justice accessible for all citizens and businesses within the European Union.
A digital infrastructure for cross-border information exchange
“About ten million people are currently involved in cross-border civil proceedings. e-CODEX provides them with easy access to legal means and boosts judicial cooperation by improving the interoperability between legal authorities within the European Union,” the e-CODEX website says.
“In an increasingly digital society, cross-border judicial cooperation relies on e-justice solutions to facilitate the interaction between different national and European actors in legal procedures. e-CODEX offers a European digital infrastructure for secure cross-border communication and information exchange in criminal and civil law.”
Services provided by e-CODEX allow secure communication and information exchange between member states in the field of justice. “The broader vision of e-CODEX is that any citizen or legal professional in the European Union could communicate electronically with any legal authority, including communication of legal authorities with each other,” according to the e-CODEX website.
The e-CODEX system is presently being implemented for European investigation and payment orders, small claims procedures, the mutual recognition of financial penalties and for custodial sentences. In addition, experts are exploring e-CODEX as the transmission system for the secure exchange of electronic evidence between judicial authorities in criminal matters, the website added.
