>ISIC now requires a phone app
>support for older phones was dropped sooner than by mobile games like the battle cats
>needs an e-mail AND my phone number to work
>shit like "we NEED your consent for us to collect your data to IMPROVE our service" or "the app to make your student life easier and more secure"
>the phone app is required for extending the student benefits and proving that you did in fact pay for the extension
>additionally asks for my sex (but you DO have the option to choose "other" or "prefer not to say" little goy!), about my field of study and my interests
>and all of this for the little shit to show the VERY SAME CARD I have on my hands physically, just with the current expiration date and a little fucking QR code at the bottom
>all it took before was the card itself and an extra extension stamp on it's back once a period ran out
I hate this corpo dystopia shit, who the fuck thought this was a good idea, all I bought this for was a discount on public transic, now there's another "third" party that can track my ass; yeah I fucking bet the collected data is sent anonymously, neatly packaged with my phone number, name, surname and my e-mail. I literally wrote my card's ID number into it so it could find it, because my name WASN'T enough and it threw an error, why can't you let everyone else do this and you wouldn't need to waste on stamps? It's not like the ISIC database is a fucking secret and neither is my name, because I show the fucking card anyway. There's millions of vulnerable students with varying finances and thousands of institutions, so of course it's better when there's millions of downloads that each now have to keep their phones up to dates, instead of, IDK, LETTING THE STATE OWNED TRANSIT COMPANY CHECK THE VALIDITY THEMSELVES? And instead of programming a whole ass app you could just design a website for this? You know, simply write in the card's ID or the name of the person, see the validity and be done with it? But nooooo, let's castrate the method that worked fine before, and FUCKING SELL OUT.
Sorry for the rant, Girl's Frontline Line.