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by function_seven 3190 days ago
A nice feature would be for them to decode and display the barcode info when you're uploading.

Something like “This image contains the following info: <Sensitive info you didn't mean to share>. Would you like us to blur that out? (Y/n)”
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hoschicz 3189 days ago
This image contains the following info: (long line of gibberish, the boarding pass ID)

User: srsly fb? OK

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atomwaffel 3189 days ago
Detecting if the embedded data is from a boarding pass is not difficult, nor is parsing it[0] and displaying it in a human-friendly format to "prove" that it's probably sensitive ("The boarding pass you posted belongs to John Smith and contains their American Airlines frequent flyer number. Are you sure you want to share this?")

[0] https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/stb/Documents/BCBP-Implementat...

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_asummers 3188 days ago
Could also very easily link to documents explaining why that could be bad for the user.
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