De La Rue, the world’s largest passport producer has placed its hands on developing technology that will make mobile phones the storehouse of these passports. Simply put, the innovation would allow phone users to store passports on phones. These passports will be referred to as Paperless Passports or e-passports.
How will it work?
The modus operandi of this digital passport is in similitude to mobile boarding cards, substitutes of printed tickets which can be used to travel through airports.
Additionally, the chips present on modern passports can be planted into a smartphone to integrate this technology rather than a document onscreen. These chips have the enablement to compare the carrier’s face to the one on the passport. But… As a result of this technology, worries regarding security have risen. The fact that the passport can be read by passport readers like QR codes could pave opportunities for forgery. Even more, losing the phone to theft could present an herculean task. The brains behind this development, De La Rue is a British based company that manufactures passports, tax stamps, bank notes with branches in East Africa and Asia. Image: Govinsider.asia
