This is an unavoidable part of the process for many rent, banking, and travel-related applications.
Watermarking will help stop these images being fraudulently used if they leak online.
Unfortunately, this includes the organizations that you have to share scans of your identity and financial documents with.
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Watermarking (that’s overlaying text over an image) can help here.
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Providing low-resolution images also makes them less useful if they happen to be stolen.
Some places may not accept ‘altered images’ and demand that you supply unaltered copies.
