I got car tax reminder today and noticed:
(For NI) A certificate of Insurance or cover note is needed [downloaded copies are acceptable, photocopies are not]
How would anyone be able to distinguish between a printed download and a photocopy?
In the UK, we have MoTinfo and AskMID websites. So anyone can go onto these to confirm status.
I would also imagine insurnace companies upload certificate PDFs for viewing by police et al. to confirm who is actually covered to drive as wella s the vehcile details etc.
Photocopies will not have corresponding PDFs though?
This is nothing to do with the Police - just the purchase of vehicle tax.
This seems to be for Northern Ireland only and when buying vehicle tax at a Post Office
In PDF's you can embed a digital "watermark"....
You can't photocopy digital watermarks....
Perhaps they mean one that was produced by the text of a document being printed against the spotty blotchyness often evident on photocopied documents implying no access to the original. Brian
<shrug?
The date?
I thought that the authorities nowadays know automatically whether a vehicle is insured?
Of course, its use might be covered by someone else's insurance, which might need to be proven by production of a certificate.
So when presenting a paper copy of a PDF at NI post office how are the counter staff going to read the digital watermark?
You obviously did not see some of the output from my laser printer before it had some consumer replaceable parts, and a clean :)
It's only NI - not the rest of the UK.
Fairly easy, I'd say. Downloaded PDF etc gives far sharper text printing than a scan. But both are equally easy to alter/forge.
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