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 “solution” to this will be that you’ll only be allowed to have one at a time. Choose and choose wisely. Changing will mean a huge amount of paperwork each and every time.
Inconvenient? Tough. Unless you’re rich.
There’ll be a tier of “known persons” who will be allowed travel without needing a passport, a bit like how it already works for the British monarch (and probably others I don’t know for sure about).
I have 3 passports, how does it know which one I want to use?
The “solution” to this will be that you’ll only be allowed to have one at a time. Choose and choose wisely. Changing will mean a huge amount of paperwork each and every time.
Inconvenient? Tough. Unless you’re rich.
There’ll be a tier of “known persons” who will be allowed travel without needing a passport, a bit like how it already works for the British monarch (and probably others I don’t know for sure about).