Morpho (Safran) has announced that the Slovak Republic has granted the company a three-year contract to provide driver’s licences. This makes it the sole supplier of all of the country’s official identity documents, from passports to police ID cards.Speaking in a press release, Morpho’s General Manager of Business Unit Europe, Government Identity Solutions, Jacques van Zijp, praised the contract “as a sign of continued trust in our technologies, placing the production of all official ID documents in our hands.”
For the state’s part, Ministry of the Interior Rudolf Hlavaty concurred: “Throughout our cooperation over the years we have built a shared understanding of technical requirements and evolutions, which is helping us to work together more effectively and provide better quality of products and services.”
Morpho is, of course, a specialist in biometric technology, having won first place last year in the NIST MINEX test with its fingerprint matching technology, so it’s fitting that the company is so trusted in the case of issuing enhanced documentation for official government purposes. This kind of thing is really taking off in Europe due to EU regulations encouraging greater ease of migration between member states, and more advanced security measures; Ukraine has been in the news recently with its issuing of biometric passports, for example, and in the same vein Bulgaria has just begun to set up biometric screening at its airports.
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January 21, 2015 – by Alex Perala
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