The data doesn’t even get into the platform, so they can’t store it and they can’t loose it. If an attacker gets access or leaks data it will be just hashes, no actual data

Thank you, I guess you are right. Still, there were some good points here and there that were worth learning. I’m going to give it a try anyway (on my local machinet) and see how it goes…

What do you mean? I am just coding an open source project in my spare time to learn, maybe improve the web with it and ask people about their opinions. If you don’t like that you don’t need to use it, probably no one will in end.

You only need the phone for the inital registration, but yes I get your point.

Governments already have the data. In a certain way you already trusted them by getting your passport and the platform just checks if its correct. The important part is to verify without sending the data into the internet.

I am not working for anyone why wood I? Everything is for free and open source, I don’t even have a lemmy instance so I can’t even publish it. I will just share my code and people can do with it whatever they want.

Ok got it, thanks for your input!

The point is to verfiy someone does not already have an account and is not a bot. Your smartphone is checking the ID locally. Governments provide public lists of keys that match keys on the passports of their citizens, so you can download the public lists locally and check them on your device outside of any social media platform etc. Your smartphone just sends something like “this user is verified” to the server

Like I already wrote, its not possible to identify a real person based on the user data on the platform, even if you gain access to the database and server. No passport data is sent to the server only the id which can’t be reversed to get you’re personal data. So you can still be anonymous

Despite that: I don’t want to keep all of the internet behind a passport verification wall. This would be terrible. I imagine it more like we have some platforms or servers where people need to verify