Hey,
As we are coming into the digital age and with news of photocopies of passport on ipads allowed to board flights etc.
Just curious, is a photo of an id such as a drivers license, legal ? in the sense can be used as a form id, when being pulled over by the police, etc?
or photo of student concession cards if transit officers stop you?
Thank you
Do driver licenses actually have that watermark? Never seen it before when I had to scan it.
or photo of student concession cards if transit officers stop you?
Ive reasoned my way out of this one before a good 3 - 4 years ago, but concession card is very minor. In terms of
Just curious, is a photo of an id such as a drivers license
For driving I would assume no, for photo identification for simple form yes to a degree. Anything thats very formal probably would need the copy to be JPed
You've may have reasoned your way out but just got lucky, years ago I got thrown off a train because I didn't carry a concession card even though I had 5 10X daily tickets in my wallet which is over $60 worth of tickets.
Anyway, I remember that all fine print make references to the words "carry at all times". Interpret that as you will, to me that sounds like physical cards only.
It would only ever work if the person requesting the ID had the technology to verify the authenticity on the spot.
To answer your question a photo of ID is definitely not legal, anyone could just photoshop the picture of ID.
I'm pretty sure a large amount of people travel with a fake concession as they are ridiculously easy to reproduce and would save lots of money
Serious? I actually doubt this. International students (not racist or anything) but esp asians are very crafty with this type of things however, from what i see at uni and form my mate sin general, is that they all pay full adult price tickets
Sorry I should have been more specific. I meant Victoria public transport concession. It is just a piece of paper with a printed university stamp and photo glued on then all laminated.
I have a legit one but you only ever flash it to them
Daily zone 1 ticket is $3.58 compared to $7.16
oh that is easier. NSW has some hologram sticker
I remember reading something in Zdnet the other day about something to do with verifying ids…
No.
How can one check the authenticity of the ID?
news of photocopies of passport on ipads allowed to board flights
source?
There was an article a while back where a guy needed to show a TSA person in the US ID and didn't have any on them, so they used their facebook profile as a credential.
Any copy both physical or digital can be edited, so the answer is no. You will find many stories of people being let on at the discretion of a security individual, but that is not to say it is protocol.
Official documents, licence, birth cert, results transcript, usually have a watermark that shows up when photocopied like COPY, DUPLICATE, which is not evident on original