Smartphone as weapon against identity theft

The Dutch police are innovating identity verification in the street by using their smartphone. 10.000 Dutch police officers have an Android smartphone and use NFC and camera capabilities to verify the authenticity of passports, ID cards and driver's licenses. Inverid is proud that our ReadID software is at the core of this innovation.

As was made public at the end of 2015 (e.g., here), the Dutch police are innovating identity verification in the street by using their smartphones. 10.000 Dutch police officers (Oct 2015, will increase to 33.000) use Android smartphones, a Samsung S5 to be precise, and use the NFC and camera capabilities to verify the authenticity of passports, ID cards and driver's licenses.

The benefits include the ability to detect fake ID documents without training, inputting personal data without manually entering personal information, no typing mistakes and easy access to police databases, e.g., on warrants or stolen ID documents. In addition, the high-resolution colour photo in the chip makes it easier to prevent look-a-like fraud compared to the photo printed on the document.

Inverid is proud that our ReadID software is at the core of this innovation. ReadID makes it possible to use the NFC capability of the smartphone to read and verify the authenticity of the personal information embedded in the chip of passports and similar ID documents.

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We have worked with the Dutch police to improve the Optical Character Recognition capabilities of ReadID, to make it better suitable for scanning the so-called Machine Readable Zone of passports and ID cards in the sometimes difficult real-world circumstance police officers have to operate. The information in the Machine Readable Zone is needed to gain access to the contactless chip in ID documents and can also be used to search police databases.

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Smartphone as weapon against identity theft

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