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Apple Announces First U.S. States That Will Let You Add Your Driver's License to Your iPhone
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I have difficulty understanding the point of this. If you have to physically show your id to an officer, how is this more convenient than a physical id?
Then they have no way to read your ID. There is nothing presented on the screen. They need a reader. If they take your locked phone to a reader in their car they have to bring the locked phone back which the phone will tell you what data is requested and you have to confirm with bio-metrics.
This is years away from replacing being able to not carry a physical ID. You do realize this right?
You all realize this is just a baby step. I can finally go through the airport (Like any of us are traveling right now) and not have my ID and phone in my hand walking through security. I can just scan my watch and be done with it.
No. They will either scan your phone or if they can’t scan, they would write down the numbers and run it in the car.
This is rolling out much faster than I thought. I'm sure my state will be one of the last to adopt it though.
A great step forward surprised New York is not part of it as we've done a good job with covid pass working with IBM.
Nevermind, I re-read the article...
How about the state department? I'd like to see my passport card (which I use as ID instead of my driver's license in every context other than when driving).
The passport card is superior because it doesn't have my address on it and it is also proof of citizenship (when it matters).
The passport card is superior because it doesn't have my address on it and it is also proof of citizenship (when it matters).
If you read the article you won’t hand it over they will have a scanner like system that reads the information just like the Apple Pay works you don’t give your phone to the cashier
Yep just give up pieces of privacy bit by bit for the convenience of carrying less stuff in your pockets like a wallet. Isn't enough to have your phone fair game to the border patrol. Soon you will hand over your phone for anything I guess...The sheep will squeal "Its convenient to not carry my wallet".
Interestingly, the DVLA were working on this as far back as 2016:
Haven’t heard anything since so I’ve no idea whether or not they’re still planning to implement this.
Considering how often things that appear innocent actually do present security risks, I think you may a bit too smug in labeling security concerns “conspiracy theories.”
I’m actually not looking forward to surrendering my phone to law enforcement instead of just my license, and for that very reason I’ll probably keep my physical license in my glovebox for any “license and registration” unpleasantries. Would you consider that a conspiracy theory or just irrational paranoia. 😂
Guess you didn't understand my comment.
Extremely rare for bartenders or servers in these parts to have mobile payment terminals, let alone some additional hardware to parse an electronic ID. Similarly, many grocery or liquor store cashiers around here still aren't equipped for NFC/touchless payment and thus also are likely to take a long time to be on board with electronic ID for proof of age.
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