Germany will outlaw the 'morphing' of passport photos, in which pictures of two people are digitally combined, making it possible to assign multiple identities to a single document.
FILE PHOTO: A specimen of the new German electronic passport is pictured under an ultraviolet light during its presentation to the media in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
Morphing can trick artificial intelligence used at passport control into ‘recognising’ different individuals.
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