The UK government has pinned its hopes on a nice app to help EU citizens when Brexit happens.
On Android it works fine, because Android does pretty much whatever you want.
On Apple devices it doesn’t work in one key aspect – the NFC scanning of a passport.
Why? Because passports don’t use a standard format.
So the government is pressing Apple to change.
But why should Apple change? They pride themselves on security and privacy – which themselves rely on following standard processes.
Passports are clearly not using a standard NFC process.
Instead, let’s fix passports, though that is clearly a long term and more complex process.
That would be the right thing to do.
