this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
103 points (99.0% liked)

Technology

84668 readers
7063 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
103
A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver's licenses open for anyone to see | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 4 hours ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 hours ago

The hotel check-in system, called Tabiq, is maintained by the Japan-based tech startup Reqrea. According to its website, Tabiq is used in several hotels across Japan and relies on facial recognition and document scanning to check guests in.

They left an S3 bucket open.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 30 points 3 hours ago

What!? One of the thousands of separate and individually "secured" systems that you have to give your information to on a daily basis failed? But how could this be? Everyone knows having 1747627994 points of possible failure is the only way to ensure digital security!

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So is this legally different than making a photocopy of your passport? Since that is supposedly not allowed but in the moment you are asked you are obviously going to comply as you really need a place to stay. If it is not I hope this company gets into the legal drama they deserve.

[–] mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Not allowed where?

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

His is why digital ID is bad.