Category: General

The police have requested that clubs use a fingerprint scanner is associate with their ID cards and driving licence in a bid to curb alcohol fueled violence. Club patrons can register and then use their fingerprints to gain access to a club. If a crime is committed then the ID’s, fingerprints and photos can be [...]

The BBC reports that 13 teenagers this month were found to be using fake ID to purchase alcohol or enter a club or a pub in Newquay. They also found that other people’s passports were being used in an attempt to enter the bars. There is a crackdown underway which is hoping to stop anti-social [...]

Steve Bagnall writes in the Daily Post, UNDERAGE drinkers have been using fake ID to bluff their way into pubs and nightclubs. At Liquid Nightclub in Wrexham alone 20 bogus passports and 30 counterfeit drivers licences have been seized. Now the county has launched the “Don’t Be a Fake campaign. Again, the usual consequence is that [...]

Jill Insley writes in the Guardian,

To show how easy it is to obtain fraudulent documents using anyone’s details, CPP applied for four official-looking proofs of ID using David Cameron’s name and Gordon Brown’s photo. As you can see, the results of this unlikely coalition are pretty convincing.

A national identity card is a portable document; usually a plastic card with the owner’s personal information and photo printed onto it, which can be used to confirm the owner details.  In some countries the National Identity Cards have digital information embedded onto the card and make use of biometric techniques such as iris or [...]