She is resisting. The smart card, whose first patent was filed by the Frenchman Roland Moreno (died in 2012) on March 24, 1974, celebrated its 50th anniversary on Monday. An adventure marked by transformation and success, which today make it one of the flagship components of global technology, with more than 50 billion copies in circulation worldwide. According to Eurosmart, no less than 10 billion copies of smart cards were delivered in 2022, a figure which was expected to remain stable in 2023 according to this analyst.
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The story began in France, with the bank card and that for telephone booths, but the smart card was quickly deployed within mobiles, identity documents (passports, driving licenses), badges access, Vitale card, transport or even connected cars.
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It has accompanied all technological developments over the years ,
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believes Benoît Jouffrey, technological director of the digital identity and security entity…
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