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Their founder is going to jail but the tech was OK - take a photo of your ID with your phone and look into the camera. Do the faces match?

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So, I can hold up a picture of the ID in front of the camera, and confirm that it's the same as the picture in the ID?

Cool!

These systems usually have blink detection, so you would at least have to scan the photo, convert to video, and blank out the eyes temporarily (blink detection tends to be quite crude).

Other systems require you to record a video of you saying a particular sentence which is then checked (presumably) by a human. And others require a video call to a real person.

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