Your Passport Scan Is a Liability: Moca Network on Identity for Humans and AI Agents

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Summary

Repeated passport scans pose privacy and security risks, and reusable, user-controlled credentials can reduce these risks while extending verifiable authority to AI agents.

Repeated passport scans create unnecessary privacy, security, and compliance risks because companies often store far more personal data than they actually need. Reusable, user-controlled credentials could let people prove specific facts—such as being over 18 or having passed KYC—without repeatedly sharing sensitive documents. The same approach could also extend to AI agents by giving them limited, verifiable, and revocable authority to act on behalf of people or organizations.
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