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I never really understood why people were so worried about this unless they have text messages of drug deals.

It's an invasion of privacy whether you have something to hide or not. Digital IDs are just a lead into social credit system like communist China has. No one with any common sense wants that. Unfortunately most people don't want to see the big and long term picture of what this all leads to. They are blinded by "convenience".
 
I wish washington would buy into this, but I suppose we’ll have to wait for Microsoft to try it first.
 
With things moving so slowly, not expecting to see it outside US anytime in the near future.
 
I still want to know why California, if all states, isn’t on either of these lists.

We’ll approve a major city to be a test track for self-driving vehicle experiments but not let people have a digital driver’s license?
 
How often does anyone have to show their driving licence? Other than hiring a car, I think it’s been about 40 years since I was asked for it anywhere in the US or Europe.
Im sure it depends greatly on lifestyle and where you live, but for me every time I buy alcohol or even candy with a 0.5% alcohol content, every time I go to the doctor or have a medical procedure done, whenever I fly domestic, renting a car, and badging in for access at secure sites.

On average I probably do one of the things on that list once every couple of weeks, except for badging in for work, which depending on the project I’m working on can sometimes be something I do twice a day. That said, a digital license would be useless for badging in since most locations take your physical license and give you a badge in exchange while you’re there.
 
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Look at "Real ID" driver license update, that was supposed to be rolled out to increase ID security after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. It's 23 years later and isnt rolled out, and it was billed as key to national security, not just a convenience. Fine Apple hasn't been innovating at the normal speed, point taken, but it's not the slowest mover here. Every state, every town/village/city etc needs to get everyone on their police force a digital ID reader, as well as all 14,000 airports in the US.
 
It’s like CarPlay: won’t be seriously adopted until there’s an Android equivalent. Apple should pull an iTunes and make an Android app.

califormia has its own system and says they are “planning” to add it to phone wallets. Probably other states are too.
It already does have an android equivalent, android has wallet apps as well.
 
I signed up as soon as this was available in Maryland, but the problem is that it gets disabled when you replace your phone and you have to go through the whole setup process again.
That’s a good thing. It means it’s not linked to your Apple ID and linked to the phone itself.
 
You might not care about your privacy, and that's fine. But other people do. So much so that you'll find the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
The funny thing is that both of you are wrong. You don’t have to unlock your phone to use any of this
 
Exactly. SCOTUS has ruled that police can’t force you to provide a password and need a warrant to search phone contents, but police are known to intimidate people into waiving their constitutional rights.
You don’t have to unlock your phone.
 
Ohio's corrupt statehouse will pick some garbage lobbyist with kickbacks that ships some insecure QR-code based app in 2027 that cops/airports won't even accept.

Always count on them to do the wrong thing and it makes a lot more sense.
And way to busy trying to restrict voting and reproductive rights for this kind of thing!
 
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I think the states want a system that they control, not a third party like Apple. California has a pilot e-driver's license program, for example, that is cross-platform with Apple, Google, and Samsung wallets.
 
FYI if you have reduce motion on it prevents the flower from moving as you tilt the phone. Apparently this is used as a verification method for the Colorado ID's.
 
I live in Colorado and I can't even get my license loaded into the app. It gets to the last step where it's going to verify with the DMV and it fails. I finally just gave up after about 5 tries.
 
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