Mobile Driving Licences and IDs are making the biggest change to issuance across global regions.
Whilst previously physical cards drove issuance, the top vertical of 2023 was the Mobile Driving Licence, forecast for further growth in 2024.
With mDL adoption predicted to rise again, Identity Week Europe 2024 – our flagship event – will retrace levels of counterfeiting during the last, pivotal 12 months and the advancement of “phygital” documents.
The panel which addressed driving licence security at last year’s event described minimal change in counterfeiting levels and suggested that fraudsters were not relying on any one type of counterfeit document to commit criminal activity.
Discussing the co-existing relationship between digital and physical documents, the session was both well attended and encouraged good participation from forensic document examiners and experts.
John Wunderlich, Member of the Kantara Initiative; Robin Tran, Forensic Document Expert at HSI Laboratory, Department of Homeland Security, and Jason Fensome, Counter-fraud Trainer at HM Passport Office joined their experiences in analysing security document features and shared insights into the most tampered features, counterfeit-proof designs, and fraud techniques.
Prompted by the moderator, Mark Lockie, Chair of Identity Week, Jason Fensome accepted that the UK’s driving licence is more standardised than US licences, which are issued under separate guidelines by each state.
He also said notable trends that the Passport/Home Office could comment on were popular fraud trends, better UK detection practices, and more remote training delivered by their partners.
Check out the agenda for Identity Week Europe 2024, with more dialogues around future ID cards…
SEE THE AGENDA: Agenda | Identity Week Europe (terrapinn.com)
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Rewatch the full session below.
