{"id":30862,"date":"2019-03-18T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=30862"},"modified":"2019-03-18T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:36:16","slug":"no-this-isnt-a-new-smart-passport-to-be-launched-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-this-isnt-a-new-smart-passport-to-be-launched-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"No, this isn&#8217;t a new &#8216;smart&#8217; passport to be launched in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message viral on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp alike claims that a new &#8216;smart&#8217; debit card-esque passport will soon be launched in India. <em>&#8220;The New Smart Passport Concept of future is here. The elegant All-In-One Identity solution for every Indian Citizen very soon. There won\u2019t be any stamp. It will be like debit\/credit card. Swipe it and move out,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>reads the message.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/harishk.nair1\/posts\/2104824906252524\" data-width=\"350\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/harishk.nair1\/posts\/2104824906252524\"><p>The New Smart Passport Concept of future is here. The elegant All-In-One Identity solution for every Indian Citizen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/harishk.nair1\">Harish K Nair<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/harishk.nair1\/posts\/2104824906252524\">Sunday, 17 March 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alt News also received queries on WhatsApp regarding the authenticity of the smart passport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30863 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-18-at-1.12.07-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-18-at-1.12.07-PM-1.png 793w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-18-at-1.12.07-PM-1-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-18-at-1.12.07-PM-1-768x538.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What is the truth?<\/h2>\n<p>Alt News uploaded the image on Google and searched it with the keyword &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8216;passport&#8217;.\u00a0<\/em>The first link that turned up was an <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/the-passport-concept-b95c1d24e02e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> published in\u00a0<em>Medium\u00a0<\/em>titled &#8211;<em> &#8220;The Passport \u2014 Concept.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30864 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/medium.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/medium.png 1059w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/medium-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/medium-768x926.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/medium-849x1024.png 849w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/medium-990x1194.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article was penned by an engineer and designer, Siddhant Gupta, who created a concept design for a passport card that resembles a pocket-sized ATM card. <em>&#8220;I tried to design the very passport, after wondering just too much. What if, our Passport was a card and not a booklet, which would sit easily inside our wallet and we are not worried if the pages will eventually run out,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>wrote Gupta.<\/p>\n<p>He used his own name and photograph on the design, which is now being circulated on social media as a new soon-to-be-launched smart passport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30866 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1194\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/download.png 1194w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/download-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/download-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/download-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/download-990x598.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Viral messages such as these can be easily debunked with a simple reverse image search. One can conversely search for articles in the media that might have reported the news. A lack of reportage is sufficient hint that the message is most likely false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message viral on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp alike claims that a new &#8216;smart&#8217; debit card-esque passport will soon be launched in India. &#8220;The New Smart Passport Concept of future is here. The elegant All-In-One Identity solution for every Indian Citizen very soon. There won\u2019t be any stamp. It will be like debit\/credit card. 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