I was trying to book an ICE ticket and suddenly the app asked to scan my ID. It loaded normally, I tried scanning then it didn’t go through, crashed, app said tickets couldn’t be confirmed. I tried again it paid normally without the ID and my ticket was bought. What happened? Is this new? It was the official DB app and the verification thing had their logo, but I’m so weirded out now I feel like I might have shared my ID with some malicious website. Does anyone have any experience with something like that?
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Could be ‘canary deployment’ this is when feature is only shown to portion of users (or orders) during evaluation/testing phase. This would explain why you did not get it second time.
But I hate this third-party “verification” slowly being pushed down the throats. Recently stopped using Wolt because now they want ID/biometrics with third-party provider when ordering tobacco/alcohol. It is fine to verify ID – but it can be done with delivery person – not by feeding data into some private business LLMs.
Crazy stuff. Then they get hacked like it happened in 2022 and leak millions of people biometrics/IDs on the Internet
This should be illegal there’s 0 reason they need this
Is your account new and you haven’t bought any tickets yet? This happened to me once as I tried to buy a ticket with my new account without any buying history.
I can see how this can be helpful.
They can make sure people are taking the right ticket for their age gap. I’ve seen older people getting the tickets aimed at young people (under 26).
But yeah, it sucks for sure. Especially seeing all the data leaks news in the last few years.
Good.
What the f? But why? For everyone?
Did you pay with “Lastschrift” / direct debit?
They added this recently for some payment methods to prevent someone from paying with stolen bank account data.
Other payment options (like credit card or paypal) are not affected.
I was wondering about that a while back when I needed a Deutschlandticket. Back then I read somewhere that DB had a large problem with people using stolen payment information Who knows.
I bought my ticket using a different website, but I am sure if that is still possible.
I had this happen trying to pay with direct debit. Swapped to paying with card and it didn’t try to make me verify there, so I’ll just be paying like that now.
I’m not scanning my ID into some third party BS just to buy a train ticket.
This usually only happens with SEPA Lastschrift as a payment method. If you pay via PayPal or credit card (or cash) it doesn’t. So it’s not verification to get a ticket but to pay via SEPA Lastschrift.