Comment by miki123211
6 hours ago
This is a radical idea, but we should remove photos from ids entirely.
Having the photo there just encourages sloppy ID checks by human eye, and it's much easier to mislead the human eye than it is to forge an NFC chip.
If the photo was in the chip only, we'd force ID verifiers to do their job properly, and make forgeries structurally impossible. With basically everybody having an NFC-enabled phone now, you wouldn't even need people to get extra hardware for this.
Depends, if the only id checks are performed by trained officials/administrators for legally significant purposes then yeah I’d agree.
But if you need to be ID checked entering a club or just buying a beer… they’re not training for that, and they’re not buying the hardware to handle it automatically either. Looking at a photo is an appropriate level of security for that purpose.
I have to say that I really don't love the idea of having my ID scanned (and definitely not stored, wink wink) every time I buy a drink etc. Having both paths available, depending on the "severity" and expected anonymity of the situation, seems nice to have.