ID Protekt | Mask your ID before you send it

Why mask your ID before sending it?

A rental, a hotel, a car hire desk, a gym: every one of them asks for a photo of your ID.
Send the whole thing and you hand over far more than was asked — permanently.

What you hand over without meaning to:

Your ID number, when all they wanted was your name
Your date of birth, your signature and your photograph
The machine-readable zone on the back, which repeats everything in a format any software can read
A copy that can be forwarded to someone else, without you ever knowing

And why it matters more now:

In May 2026, 14.8 million Ecuadorian identity records and over 10 million ID images surfaced on dark forums [detail]
An unmarked copy works just as well anywhere else — it doesn't say what you gave it for
Your facial image is sensitive data under the LOPDP, with a higher protection standard
Nobody gives back a copy you already sent

What ID Protekt does

Three things, all on the phone and none of them on a server.

Cover what isn't needed

You choose how much stays readable across four levels — Strict, Standard, Open or Custom — and the app tells you which level usually suits which kind of recipient.

Watermark it with its purpose

The copy comes out stamped with the reference and the period you gave. A copy marked for an August booking is not a general-purpose document somewhere else.

Review before you share

A red and green overlay shows what is covered and what is visible. Tap to flip it, drag to cover more. Nothing is shared until you approve it.

Read your document's chip

Your ID or passport carries a chip. The app reads it over NFC and shows you what the state wrote inside — without sending it anywhere.

Check that it's genuine

It verifies the state's signature over the chip and breaks the result into its three checks rather than a green tick. If something doesn't hold, it says so.

Keep the proof, not the copy

Every validation leaves a record with its own locator, encrypted on your phone: what you shared, with whom, and when. Evidence of the event, never a second copy of the document.

How masking works

Five steps, and the first one explains the other four before the camera opens.

1. We tell you what will happen

Before you photograph anything. You shoot the front, and the back if it has one — the back is where the address and the second machine-readable strip live.

2. Photograph

Front required, back optional, more pages if the document has them.

3. Choose how much stays readable

Before you see a single masked pixel, so there is nothing to bargain against. This is also where the watermark's reference and period go.

4. Review

The safety control: red over what is covered, green over what is visible. Tap to change, drag to add.

5. Share

The app checks its own work, gives you its verdict, and only then do you share the masked, watermarked copy.

What the app never keeps

A record is evidence of an event, not a second copy of your document. That is the whole reason it is safe to keep one.

Never stored:

Your face. The chip portrait is shown while it is on screen and is never written to any record
No values from your data. The record says “your surname · shared”, never the surname
No machine-readable zone, no document number, no ID number
No images, masked or otherwise

And what does stay, on your phone:

A locator minted on the device, so you can refer to that validation later
Who asked, what kind of fact they asked for, and what the outcome was
For a chip read: the issuing state, the document type and the authenticity verdict
All of it under the system's file protection, and none of it leaves the phone

Masking is not verifying — and the difference matters

ID Protekt covers data in an image. Verify with ISM proves cryptographically who you are.

A masked copy is still a photograph: it protects your privacy from whoever receives it, but it does not prove the document is genuine or that you are its holder. Verify with ISM does that by reading the chip and checking the state's signature. If a bank, a telco or a platform needs to verify your identity, an image will not do — however good the mask. They are two different products inside one app, and we keep them apart deliberately.

What works today, and what doesn't yet

Everything below is checkable. Ask us for the evidence on any line.

Built and proven

Masking at four levels with a visual review before sharing, on iOS and Android
NFC chip reading with verification of the state's signature, broken into its three checks
A validation record on the device, encrypted, holding no values and no images
The app is free and does not ask you to create an account

By invitation, for now

It is on TestFlight, accepted by Apple in August 2026 — not yet on the public App Store
The choose and review screens are in English: the masking engine shares its wording with the Android build and has no translation seam yet
A record kept inside the App Clip is ephemeral — iOS may evict it; the installed app's is not
Get in touch if you want early access

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Mask your ID before you send it