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by chatmasta 356 days ago
It seems every country that moves to electronic travel authorization has an app that requires me to verify my passport with this method. I have a fairly new passport, issued in the last few years, and a recent phone… and this process is a huge pain. I need to massage my passport with my phone for a minute, maybe I get a bite, hold it still… oops, start over… try again… okay, use our partner’s face ID recognition service instead… ugh it’s horrible.

I don’t know if the issue is the very low power chip in the passport, or some damage or what… but I dread the process any time I need to do it.
1 comments
doublerabbit 356 days ago
It's just a future fantasy that isn't fit for our dystopian world. I'm still waiting for the fantasy of fixed potholes.
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chatmasta 356 days ago
Honestly, it’s better than “take a photo of your passport and upload it to our unsecured S3 bucket.”
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FireBeyond 356 days ago
Or id.me, as used by the IRS. "Scan your license, front and back"...

Front, 200dpi, "Unable to find a face in the image". 300dpi, "Unable to find a face in the image". Let's try lower, 72dpi, "Thank you".

Back, let's start at 72dpi, since that worked for the front. "Unable to read a barcode in the image". Higher, 200dpi, "Unable to read a barcode in the image". 300dpi? "Thank you".

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