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The article is from 2021, the original court decision it is writing about is from 2019. Old news. The machine-readable parts of government issued passports als
by thyristan 1y ago
The article is from 2021, the original court decision it is writing about is from 2019. Old news.
The machine-readable parts of government issued passports also do not adhere to that ruling, as do many government IT systems in Europe. The fallout from that ruling has been underwhelming so far.
- cjs_ac 1y agoIt might be old news, but it's a good reminder that reality has a surprising degree of complexity, and that software engineers have a responsibility to properly represent and handle that complexity.
- JdeBP 1y agoAnd the clickbait title isn't actually the conclusion, as the page cited by this one as its source even explains.
- pepa65 1y agoMakes you wonder if that is one of the reason they like to spell people's names in all uppercase. (Under the rules of some languages, the accents etc. "fall away".)