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