Sealys Security Features

The increase in international travel, growing threats from terrorism, high levels of identity fraud as well as illegal immigration means that our travel documents, ID and healthcare documents must be highly secure. At Gemalto we take these threats seriously by ensuring that the secure document selected can be trusted, by using technologies and materials that are difficult to copy... More...
 
Case study: driver license in Sweden

Polycarbonate and Identity Documents

 Extract from the white paper.

In 1989, Finland saw the arrival of the world’s first polycarbonate identity document: the Finnish Driver License and in 1999 the Finnish eID card . Since then, polycarbonate has established itself as the most suitable material for electronic identity documents... More...

More examples: Norway, Sweden, Belgian Id.

ePassports and security

Fears have been expressed in a dramatic way regarding ePassport’s security. Dutch researcher Jeroen van Beek has put the ePassport community on fresh alert following revelations that he was not only able to clone, but also alter information within an ePassport chip.  More...