It’s amazing how impressively flawed the thinking around this is.<p>You can use <i>this</i> app to show an image of the QR code (Apple Wallet), but you can’t use <i>that</i> app to show an image of the QR code (Photos).<p>The only reasonable point in the article is that the Photo app doesn’t know it’s a QR code and therefore you could end up with an image that won’t scan. Which is certainly one possible way you could end up not being able to show your ticket (or your battery could die, or your screen could break, or it could be across the network and your service sucks), but it is no excuse for not accepting a ticket that <i>does</i> successfully scan.<p>The fact that they then went after this person to extort money from them after the fact — when they were a valid ticket holder — is mind blowing.
>After much deliberation she decided to pay, as it would have cost more in legal fees to fight.<p>Justice is not a right, it's a product you buy, and wealthy people can afford more and better lawyers. Wealthy people are better, and deserve more of anything they want.<p>It's yet another neo-feudalism example. This woman is a peasant, and the company is the lord, and what happened was a shake down. And the government is the serf who assisted the lord with this extortion. In no possible way, taking the story at face value, was she intending to commit fraud. The government has abandoned its duty to serve and protect human persons first and foremost, and the long term trust loss as a result of this corruption is not good for civil society.