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0 pointsizacus14h ago0 comments

Tapping a UK passport to your phone works just fine for ETA apps and it would work just fine for Apple as well.

The fact that you think American corporation punishing foreign users for their laws is acceptible is sick upon itself.

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> The fact that you think American corporation punishing foreign users for their laws is acceptible is sick upon itself.

Not really. I was hoping more large US corps would just not comply and force a big kerfuffle and force the UK government to rethink the OSA and other ridiculous legislation.

AlexandrB14h ago

How many people have a passport vs a credit card? If you travel a lot, sure, but some folks never leave their hometown.

xnorswap13h ago

In the UK More people have passports than have credit cards, the assumption otherwise is precisely the culture-clash that the article is complaining about.

tene80i13h ago

In the UK? Over 85% of people have a passport.

suddenlybananas13h ago

More Brits have passports (86.5% [1]) than credit cards (64% [2]).

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

[2] https://www.money.co.uk/credit-cards/credit-card-statistics

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