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In EU the passport also contains your biometric identifiers. The RFID chip on the passport contains your fingerprints and picture. This also allows the electron
by doikor 4y ago
In EU the passport also contains your biometric identifiers. The RFID chip on the passport contains your fingerprints and picture. This also allows the electronic passport control at airports etc where the machine compares what you look like to the photo on the chip.
- dzhiurgis 4y agoSend that pic to my countries server which will answer true/false. Whats the point of storing that on passport?
- doikor 4y agoSo it works on the airport if the internet/whatever server is down. Makes the gates a lot simpler too if they do not require a connection to the internet to work properly. And integrating the gates with 27+ different systems built by different countries (by most likely some local it company you have never heard of) would be a nightmare.
- dzhiurgis 4y agoIDK if you noticed, but when servers go down all airports go haywire. IDK how many systems are out there, but I assume thousands already. Just about every country now requires e-visa now too, all checked by airline before departure. And by the way - if countries managed to agree on offline passport implementation, which is way more complicated, I don't see how they can't nail online one.