Identity security solutions firm Oberthur Technologies has announced that its Lasink solution has started to be deployed across Costa Rica, through a multi-year contract to provide highly secure national ID cards.The issuance of the high security ID card has been delegated through a contract between the Supreme Electoral Court, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute and Oberthur Technologies. 600,000 of these cards will be issued every year in Costa Rica.OT has said that the new ID card will provide the Costa Rican authorities with a solid foundation to develop going forward a trusted identity environment.Lasink allows the document holder's colour picture to be engraved directly within the polycarbonate card. The document is hard-wearing, with a life span of more than 10 years.The Lasink pattern is easily recognizable but impossible to replicate with any digital printer, says OT, and scanners or smartphones are able to authenticate the document portrait. "OT is absolutely delighted to cooperate with the Costa Rican authorities and very proud to bring for the first time in the Americas its highly secure Lasink technology. Thanks to this solution, the benefits for the country are twofold: citizens have increased trust in identity documents and the government implements a solution which is impossible to counterfeit and straightforward to control" indicated Christophe Fontaine, Citizen Access & Identity Managing Director at OT.

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