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jtokoph | 1 month ago

I would hope that they have access to a tool to look up the passport by number and confirm that the details match the copy and the photo appears to look like the person.

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toomuchtodo|1 month ago

They do, but it can and will be ignored, based on events to date. The goal is to create ambiguity to enable a power imbalance enabling working outside of the legal framework to accomplish target outcomes. It turns an objective boolean evaluation (“is_citizen”) into a subjective one (“is_preferred_and_compliant”).

xboxnolifes|1 month ago

You might even hope that such a system would be able to work off of their name and some other memorable, identifiable information like address, origin country, date of birth, and would display their papers with photo-identification available, but alas...

The goal isn't to be reasonable or helpful.