Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.
The headline overreaches as the article doesn’t support the passport dying as much as some early exploration into potential digital variants, and some convenience efforts to not have to show the passport.
Dying would be “most people use the digital variant, it’s accepted everywhere and we’re phasing out the paper variant”… which sounds like it might happen on the same timeline as large scale fusion energy
The headline overreaches as the article doesn’t support the passport dying as much as some early exploration into potential digital variants, and some convenience efforts to not have to show the passport.
Dying would be “most people use the digital variant, it’s accepted everywhere and we’re phasing out the paper variant”… which sounds like it might happen on the same timeline as large scale fusion energy