Virtual passport app presents real data risk, experts warn

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Post by pseudolus » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 11:36 AM UTC

Virtual passport app presents real data risk, experts warn
cbc.ca

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Post by Faaak » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:05 PM UTC

In the UK, you can renew your passport online too. I don't really see the risks: they check that your picture matches the old one and you still have to send your old passport for them to issue you the new one..

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Post by sebmellen » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:05 PM UTC

* passport application app

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Post by bluesign » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #3

* passport application app

even * passport application web app

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Post by tialaramex » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:28 PM UTC

Faaak wrote: post #2

In the UK, you can renew your passport online too. I don't really see the risks: they check that your picture matches the old one and you still have to send your old passport for them to issue you the new one..

Yeah, it's very convenient. If you've already sent them a photo for a driving license (for example) the system can just use that photo on your passport, or if your passport expires before your license, vice versa.

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Post by thegeekbin » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:33 PM UTC

IBM? Well, I'll never be using that app. To my knowledge, Phoenix Pay System is still in the shambles...

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Post by pcora » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:35 PM UTC

This title is very misleading. The app is just for applying to a passport.

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Post by tinus_hn » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:36 PM UTC

Faaak wrote: post #2

In the UK, you can renew your passport online too. I don't really see the risks: they check that your picture matches the old one and you still have to send your old passport for them to issue you the new one..

So what does the app do?

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Post by williesleg » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:43 PM UTC

China has all the data already, this just makes it a little more normalized for them.

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Post by danpalmer » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:43 PM UTC

> IBM Canada has won $1.5M contract to develop new platform for IRCC

This will buy what? A team of 4 interns and new grads for 6 months. At the end they'll have a slide deck with too much wordart in ith containing some half-baked ideas, and a few lines of code that don't do anything useful at all and are further from production readiness than starting from scratch.