Yeah, and what about department stores and such who ask to see your DL for credit card verification? I always get asked to see my DL at Disneyland Anaheim food places and I hate it cuz it always way back stuffed in my backpack. I don't think this is going to eliminate carrying the card for white a while but it's a start anyway.
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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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The license plate only tells them who registered the vehicle, not who's actually driving it.
Just look at Australia... https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/ (in reference to the idea of handing your phone over to law enforcement)
I'm not. California is normally so tied with bureaucracy, we get things years past anyone else (see California EDD and California's Real ID compliance). At this point, California will support this feature in ... carry the one ... 2052.
The revenue generating parts of the police department (traffic ticket squads) will absolutely get these upgrades quickly. Anything that makes their work more efficient means more tickets, which means more money.
Oh, you thought traffic enforcement was about safety? Ha.
Yeah, I wonder how many years it will actually be before it is feasible to only rely on the ID in your phone. Being able to add your ID to Wallet is nice but pretty useless if most places can’t accept it.
The Solar System will be sucked into a giant black hole before Florida ever allows something like this. Oh wait, Florida is already a black hole!
In the Arizona Mobile ID app, click share IDIt's not QR code. We have a PDF417 formatted bar code on the back.
Oh they’ll be aware, but still coerce people into handing over more than necessary. The selective sharing of information guarded by Face ID will be what makes this protect people.
Actually at places that now scan your ID, you don't have to show a boarding pass at all. The system will look you up to see if you have a valid boarding pass for the day instead.
Which is good as far as the design goes, but I would want to see legislation that says that they're not allowed to take the device without a warrant specifically for it, and training so one wouldn't have to argue the point.
While a lot of you are going to go full conspiracy theory stuff, and pretend lawyers, I am going to enjoy carrying less stuff with me, since I take public transportation. For days I am driving, I can either a) keep a physical ID in the car or b) have the officer write down the numbers which they have already done for me in the existing Arizona Mobile ID app. I have never had an issue. For the record, I fall in the category of "not Caucasian" and have never had an issue with this mobile ID app and police officers, and I am sure the Apple one will be just the same. Never have I had an officer ask to see the phone itself, and I got pulled over for my illegal tint....got a warning instead and we chatted about the mobile ID app! Ha!
You just gave them probable cause to keep your phone. "we saw some irregularities on the digital drivers license that required further investigation'.
Come on, Missouri. Don't drag your feet on this like you did abolishing slavery!
Truth. My wife changed her last name when we got married so we got her passport sent in to amend it. I suspect that she was questioned EVERY SINGLE TIME about "your name doesn't match" and when we pointed out the amendment page that has her curent name at least half the time they gave us a look like we made it up. I'll give them a little bit of a break as we used our passports even for domestic travel and maybe the domestic airline agents just aren't as familiar as ones with international flights.
We need to start having serious conversations about ownership over our metadata and api transparency. I want you guys to think, when you go to Walgreens and use Apple Pay there, and they collect your rewards card without you even selecting it, from your debit card transaction -- you essentially involuntarily gave that merchant information, convenient or not. Where is this telegraphed that they're going to transmit reward card information before the debit card? Now that my state ID is involved, I think we must demand transparency and some kind of chain of consent over peripheral data being collected.
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