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Show HN: Tap your passport to on board – Instant identity verification

by boldslogan on 2/28/21, 3:28 PM with 4 comments

• by boldslogan on 2/28/21, 3:32 PM

  I've been working on an API for a while. This idea is for anyone to start verifying passports in their app and now I've finally set up the entire business to try and validate this for real. End users could be (drivers / partners / users / fintech compliance) and then I take a payment per verification.

  Excited to start this journey!

• by gus_massa on 2/28/21, 3:41 PM

  > Use the camera to scan the machine readable zone of your passport's data page.

  You probably need to add a graphic for that part.

  Isn't that too easy to fake? What happens if I just print the letters in a paper?

• by architect on 2/28/21, 4:03 PM

  Has it ever occurred to anyone that passports are racist? I mean the discrimination is solely on skin-color and accident of birthplace, little else! There is zero merit to being born in white privileged country but yet I NEVER see anybody protesting in the street against this atrocity? Why is that?