The Italian electronic identity card: a short introduction
Franco Arcieri, Mario Ciclosi, Fabio Fioravanti, Enrico Nardelli, Maurizio Talamo · Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University) · 2004
The italian Electronic Identity Card (EIC, for short) is a polycarbonate smart card equipped with a microchip (supporting cryptographic functions) and a laser band (featuring an embedded hologram). It contains personal (e.g. name, surname, date of birth,...) and biometric data (photo and fingerprint) of a citizen.