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ILO: New ID system ready (12/6)

The International Labor Organization has announced that the new biometric system for issuing secure identity documents to the world’s 1.2 million mariners is ready for implementation, following successful testing of products that met the challenging requirement of "global interoperability" for such documents.

The release is available on the ILO web site here

 

 
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