• The Prism@feddit.nlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    incorrect. it is actually fairly easy to authenticate an id or passport from a photo. Photoshopping something is easily spotted by a trained eye. Source i work as a document expert for an online ID verification company. the amount of fakes we spot each day are fairly large and its not all automatically processed. Also for those people that don’t know where there data is proccesed. there are actually a lot of laws in place to protect your data for example for EU citizens

    • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Sure, a bad photoshop can be spotted, but you can’t spot it if the forger put in just a little bit of effort. The fact that you can spot some fakes doesn’t mean you spot all fakes.

      • The Prism@feddit.nlEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Hence why we have minimum picture quality were we reject if too low quality plus in 6 years of working i have only seen a handful of fraudsters put in effort. most don’t put in effort and are either shoddy photoshops or people use camouflage passports(aka passports from non existing countries)the thing is that most printing techniques are easily visible on official passports. things like laser engraving and embossing are hard to photoshop and if people try they often look digitally replaced. But for doing my work it also has made we agree that not all companies need every data you have. But yes it does hell that i have done Print design before this job so know about how things are printed plus knowing how photoshop works

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      So just … photoshop and print a fake ID and ask a stranger to take a picture with it.

      I doubt you will see the ID clearly enough to make out the photoshopped parts.

      • The Prism@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        nah thats why we reject on bad quality if we can’t see all the sec features or if documents are printed or on a screen. Things like laser engraving are actually easy to see the difference between Photoshop and real.