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Florida Plans to Join These U.S. States That Will Let You Add Your Driver's License to Your iPhone
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Florida will probably add to the license requirement that in addition to consenting to a breath test by signing the license you also agree to allow law enforcement to confiscate your phone as evidence of something or anything.
I know a few bartenders here in Colorado, and they've all been trained to accept the myColorado app as valid proof of age.
FaceID works just fine for me with the myColorado app. You may want to dig around in the settings and see if you can enable it. I don't remember having to do that myself; I think it just offered when I first set it up.
It's definitely handy, though I did have a bank teller tell me yesterday that it wasn't going to cut it as valid ID for certain things. She didn't elaborate on what those things were, and accepted it for my deposit. (Don't get me started on why I had to go back to 1995 and deposit my checks with a real person). I do agree though that wallet integration would be ideal.
You likely know it but you can add your myCO authentication info to Keychain manually.
exactly, how could several DMV agents make any money from selling older and out of state licenses ID?
every 4 years there is a internal bust and they need 4 more agents, and 2 supervisors.
last time was the Passaic Wayne DMV, 48 were found guilty.
Very nice....
- Presenting a driver’s license or state ID to TSA: Once added to Wallet, customers can present their driver’s license or state ID to the TSA by simply tapping their iPhone or Apple Watch at the identity reader. Upon tapping their iPhone or Apple Watch, customers will see a prompt on their device displaying the specific information being requested by the TSA. Only after authorizing with Face ID or Touch ID is the requested identity information released from their device, which ensures that just the required information is shared and only the person who added the driver’s license or state ID to the device can present it. Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID.
But why? If the spyware is reporting you to the government, they already have your license and passport and can get access to your phone and credit card histories with a subpoena.
The spyware is a terrible move in apple’s part but you aren’t any worse off by using digital ID.
You only handicap yourself by tying self to a card.
This! As another (now 11 year) Floridia resident, my other friends look at the average FL news feed and laugh at us non-stop.
As for the Driver's Licenses, my newer TSA compliant "REAL ID" license NEVER scans correctly at any US airports when scanned it in the TSAPre line (so I'm always the one holding everything up). I just was travelling to NYC with my girlfriend and her FL license did not work either. So maybe this FL app is to avoid having to reprint millions of faulty licenses - anyone else from FL have that issue?
So, don't hand them your phone? As has been stated many times, these systems are being designed for you to present your phone to display your ID and however it gets read. You should never be handing it over to anyone.
As an aside, it's mind-boggling to me the number of people who will just hand their phone to someone locked or even unlocked. I've seen people do it at stores and in restaurants; they will just hand the employee their phone and sometimes let them disappear from sight with it. Crazy. In my opinion, these people deserve whatever happens to them, even if they ever decide to hand the police or whomever their phone.
Any official vax cert w/o a photo on it to eliminate requiring a companion ID is a complete failure of design and political leadership.
For god sake even my bus pass has a photo on it and it’s of far less critical importance than a damn buss pass.
Sorry, but covid apps are nearly useless in most places.
I spent 3 weeks of last month in the EU. Was in several countries, ate out every meal went to several museums etc.
know how many times did someone ask me about vaccine status? A grand total of one time to enter Poland, and then when I started to show it to the immigration officer, he said he was just asking and did not need to see it. Most of Europe is more loose than even Fl. No one used them at all And mask wearing was minimal as well With most people wearing it around there neck.
Mission creep never happens? Like instantly?
There's a lot more than just a pic that makes up your Face ID profile. With a gov that openly, repeatedly and materially lies, giving them a 3D scan of your face to play with, is a big red flag, on top of Redbeard's ship, that's engulfed in a red inferno, while sinking into red hot magma, inside the legendary red volcano, on the infamous red island.
Maybe we shouldn't be acquiescing to what the gov currently does, but working to put them back into the box where they should be operating?
As the wallets get slightly thinner, the iPhone gets bigger and heavier, often w/camera bulges and corresponding cases. Maybe what seems like convenience is actually more bad habit through the lens of addiction? "It really saves time to carpool to my dealer during peak traffic hours."
The fact that we are here discussing the relative merits of replacing a tiny, thin, inert and easily carried plastic card with a battery operated comparatively sized beast of a digital dongle, with required subscription to a 3rd party connection service, is maybe worth a look in the mirror of where this tech trend is at, and its worth to convenience.
Officer: I was just going to take a look but now you are inviting me to plug this giant cable and mysterious box into your iPhone.
If they need a warrant to search your phone, why would they be interested in "tricking" you into handing over your phone? Everything they find would subject to suppression.
You don't hand your phone over to anyone in this scenario. It works like Apple pay does, or with a scannable QR code. You maintain physical control of your device at all times.
This is without a doubt the worst roadside Lionel Hutz lawyering I've ever seen or heard. First off, simply handing your device over noes not constitute consent. Second, consent can be revoked at ANY TIME without reprisal. So even if you did sign a consent to search anything (your vehicle, your phone, your home, etc) and as the cops were about to open the drawer that you had "XYZ CONTRABAND" in and you blurted out I REVOKE MY CONSENT NOW!!! They have to stop, and can't use the withdraw of your consent as probable cause when trying to get a warrant to proceed.
Locking your car after being asked to exit your vehicle has no implications on the legality of a search or any sort of consent, implied or expressed. If a cop sees something in plain sight in your vehicle, they can seize it. Locked car or not. If a cop has reason to believe your car has weapons in it that can harm him/her and you have possession of the keys, that is constructive possession of the vehicle contents. You can unlock it for a cursory examination for weapons, or you can sit in the back of a police car and watch them do it with the keys they fished out of your pocket. That's your choice, of course. When it comes to safety, the courts have almost universally sided with police, particularly on roadside encounters, pedestrian and traffic stops.
Most cops are decent people. They just want to make a paycheck and go home at night. There are a LOT of bad cops out there though, and when bad advice like this meets those bad cops is when things can get ugly quickly. Don't make like you know your rights when you don't. In some instances you seem assert rights you don't have, and in others you neglect to point out the rights you do have. So when you make it seem you know what you're talking about, you just make things bad for people you may be trying to help.
Your assertion that fighting your battles in court is excellent advice. I wholeheartedly agree. And pay the money for the good lawyer. Public Pretenders are crap.
It is basically a pic of your license verified by the state. Nothing more and nothing less. The AP ID verification checks to see if the nbr, name and date of birth match what’s on file with the state. Will work with a state ID that has no driving privileges as well. The app is an ID only checker ….it does not actually check to see if you have driving privilege. That is why you still need an actual license to drive
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree, you can make a questionable or okay situation go real bad real fast. Been down that road and fortunately knew when to shut up.
So identify theft is still one of the biggest growth segments in the industry, and we think some DMV developed app is where we should store all our personal info?? I’m not quite sure I see an upside to that.