In one year, more than 40 million driver’s licenses have been issued globally using Datacard government products, the identity card product company reports.
Datacard Group reports that its driver license projects span globally over a range of delivery models, processes and settings. In North America alone, 18 million of those driver’s licenses were issued in over 15 states and provinces.
Michael Berman, vice president of government sales for Datacard Group, said: “By leveraging our vast experience in all of our projects around the world, as well as listening to the needs of our partners and customers, we continue to bring to market secure, innovative solutions that ease the implementation and operational burden of critical projects and comply with all the changing standards. Faced with increasing rates of fraud, administrators in many driver’s license programs are now transitioning to far more secure solutions and technologies already recognised in many other countries around the world.”
Globally, the company projects that the number of driver’s licenses issued each year will continue to increase as more programmes move to extra security features such as laser engraving. For example, the European Union has mandated all driver licenses to be laser engraved polycarbonate cards.
Berman added: “Many states in the US have also moved to laser technology to virtually eliminate counterfeiting and alteration, including Virginia, New York, Wisconsin and Washington DC. This is a national security and economic growth issue which has resulted in many countries moving to this more secure ID technology. We expect that there will be many more driver’s license programmes transitioning in the coming years.”
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