Norway’s National Police Directorate announced the design for the country’s new passport from Neue Design Studio. It features on it’s passport pages a reductive depiction of a Norwegian landscape .Under UV light, the Northern Lights glow.
Read more and see the pages :
http://www.citylab.com/design/…eel-inferior/382848/
In my experience, much of the fraud is perpetrated online so a photo is irrelevant.
Very cool!
Actually, Citibank offered that option some 20-25 years ago, and I had my picture on one. It didn’t really add anything to security; the clerks never looked at it any more than they look at signatures now. That’s why chip-and-PIN beats chip-and-signature: unlike the counter clerk, the machine DOES check for authentication!
One day someone will put a photo of the bearer on Credit Cards and eliminate fraud !
Maybe not – that’s too obvious.