U.S. Customs Denies iPad Passport Scan Got Canadian Across Border

They said:

“The asser­tion that a trav­el­er was admit­ted into the U.S. using sole­ly a scanned image of his pass­port on an iPad is cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly false,” a U.S. Cus­toms and Bor­der Patrol (CBP) spokesper­son said

So you can't get across the US border with a scanned passport but wouldn't it be cool if you could? After all, a passport is simply a printed token bearing identity information that can be verified by comparison with independent records; holding that token on a smart phone might make a lot of sense.

U.S. Customs Denies iPad Passport Scan Got Canadian Across Border
http://mashable.com/2012/01/04/canadian-ipad-passport/

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