Very soon, digital fingerprinting will be mandatory in German ID cards. The question is ... can be used to establish whether the rightful holder is in possession of the document.

German identity cards issued since 2010 come ... registration and use "pseudonyms" instead of the real name of the ID card holder. Pseudonyms are random strings of characters acting as a unique ...

The chip stores digital versions of the card holder's photo ... security flaws were found in the new electronic ID cards. In September, the German hacker collective the Chaos Computer Club ...