The Paper Passport Is Dying
www.wired.com
Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.
  • oh_English
    35•5 days ago

    Ugh no. Please no. We don’t need an app for everything. This is more erosion of privacy when the app tracks your every move.

  • @[email protected]English
    30•5 days ago

    Awesome idea, let’s integrate identification, payment and every conceivable piece of information about a person, into a single device. There’s no possible way that’s going to backfire /s

    • @pdxfedEnglish
      6•5 days ago

      Yep. I thought just as much about my phone being stolen as I did my passport while traveling on my last trip.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•5 days ago

    “Please unlock your phone so I can see your ID”…. “Thank you for unlocking your phone so now I have full access to everything and can bypass all protections”

  • esaEnglish
    8•5 days ago

    Here in Norway we have both ID (though a BankID app) and driver’s license through a driving license app. Not exactly hard to imagine the passport joining them.

    The physical driver’s license isn’t dead, though having ID on your bank card seems to have gone away.