Ghost photos for secure passports.

• Author: Mitchell, Teresa

The Government of Canada has launched a new redesigned passport containing features that will make it much more difficult to alter or forge. Added features, including an embedded photo, holograms, digital printing, a ghost photograph, and optically variable ink will further improve the integrity of the travel document, and in so doing, further contribute to public safety.

New passports will be issued gradually, from May until December 2002, as passport offices across Canada upgrade equipment and training to meet new security standards. Previously issued...