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How to avoid the risk of litigation by Diana Ombelli and Fons Knopjes

Documents: The Developer’s Toolkit

Governments invest increasingly in secure travel and identity documents, electronic identification and biometrics, a reliable citizen registration and other elements of their national identity infrastructure. Very little reference material is publicly available; this gap in reference material challenged the specialist Diana Ombelli and Fons Knopjes to compile 'Documents: the Developer’s Toolkit', a book about how secure documents are developed.

Announcement of a unique and comprehensive publication on identity documents Documents: The Developer’s Toolkit

Governments invest increasingly in secure travel and identity documents, electronic identification and biometrics, a reliable citizen registration and other elements of their national identity infrastructure.

Stolen blank documents

According to American statistics, there are currently some 25 million stolen security documents in circulation around the world. What's more, some 80% of all documents seized were declared stolen before or after they were issued. According to the same source, nearly 70% of all document fraud involves the use of someone else's ID documents. Isabel Baltazar and Fons Knopjes explain the pitfalls and solutions.