Is common sense, that physical documents need physical security features. Among many features, especially DOVIDs have demonstrated, that they are a very effective weapon to prevent government documents from being falsified or forged.

Document designers have a wide range of options provided by the respective industry. A few trends have created a new range of features. Features that are covering the whole surface of a document with security layer.

Such features appeared first 30 years back on passport laminates protecting paper data-pages. With the rampant use of Polycarbonate for making ID Cards or PC Datapages for passports where commonly only patches were used to protect some specific area it become evident, that the long-standing wish to have the full freedom to distribute the security elements over the whole document and according the document design needs.

 The presentation shows how recent developments in ICAO standard enabling large portraits on a ID1 format card and the rampant use of PC has pushed to waived the path to a complete new class of security elements in PC documents : Full Data Protection. The presentation does show new samples and gives design ideas on how the technology can be deployed by document designers to achieve esthetically aspiring and self-instructive intuitive designs.