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Alaska Extends Contract with Gemalto to Enhance Driver’s License Security

Most noticeable change will be transitioning to a laser-engraved polycarbonate card body.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Gemalto and Alaska’s Division of Motor Vehicles will continue their work of providing credentials to citizens with the additional goal of helping the state become Real ID compliant by increasing security of the state’s driver’s license and identification cards.   The most noticeable change will be transitioning to a laser-engraved polycarbonate card body. What sets this material apart is the permanently fused layers with security features embedded in between, which prevents successful tamperin...

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