iPhone Driver's Licenses: These 17 U.S. States Offer Them or Will Later

[jdoll021]

Good luck with that. Essentially shouting at the wind.

We are surveilled/tracked in so many ways that we can barely fathom. Cameras everywhere, license plate readers everywhere, phone app location data, phone location data via carriers (at minimum by just recording which antenna on which tower your phone is connected to the network through), banking / financial transaction data, shopping data, online store perusing data, etc.

Read this: How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

That's from nearly fifteen years ago. Just imagine how much it's progressed.

You'll need to go completely off-grid in the wilderness with no technology to accomplish any meaningful result.

The CIA, FBI, and NSA thank you for your passive acceptance of the surveillance state and the death of the fourth amendment. Please feel free to include a tattooed bar code, gps/compliance collar, regular pat downs and cavity searches as part of your contribution to the state. You may also choose to contribute to Peter Theil/Palantir’s database where they can run an AI algorithm on your data to make sure you’re not guilty of a thought crime.

 

[JapanApple]

It’ll most likely be outsourced by way of a lucrative contract to some tech company that will produce half the quality for twice the cost.

That's the assumption, regardless assumption and reasoning still within the states own population that created its mess. It’s all the same

 

[deeddawg]

The CIA, FBI, and NSA thank you for your passive acceptance of the surveillance state and the death of the fourth amendment.

Only way to opt-out is to move to the wilderness and go off-grid, which you've clearly not done.

So while you may pretend you're less surveilled than everyone else, you know you really aren't.

(and it's a drivers license - issued by the government - so the data, including your photo, is by definition already in all the gvmt databases)

 

[HighwaySnowman]

The state-specific app for where i live lets you view the digital license and displays a digital/scannable barcode for the cop. The same barcode has been on the back of our physical licenses for years. Even bars scan the barcode to check against fake id

Nobody scans the barcode on the back of my license, one of the first things I do when getting a new one is use my barcode scanner to make sure that my grinding wheel has taken care of that problem successfully.

That barcode has EVERYTHING on the front of the license in it. No thanks, I don't intend to be part of your marketing database just because I bought a bottle of wine.

 

[deeddawg]

Nobody scans the barcode on the back of my license, one of the first things I do when getting a new one is use my barcode scanner to make sure that my grinding wheel has taken care of that problem successfully.

That barcode has EVERYTHING on the front of the license in it. No thanks, I don't intend to be part of your marketing database just because I bought a bottle of wine.

This is one of the benefits of the Apple digital drivers license. When the store/bar device requests data from your apple digital license, your phone displays what data is being requested and doesn't send it until you authorize doing so.

Present your driver's license from Apple Wallet - Apple Support

Use your iPhone or Apple Watch to present your eligible license or ID at select Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints, businesses, and venues. You can also share your identity information in participating apps.

support.apple.com

 

[CarlJ]

Nobody scans the barcode on the back of my license, one of the first things I do when getting a new one is use my barcode scanner to make sure that my grinding wheel has taken care of that problem successfully.

That barcode has EVERYTHING on the front of the license in it. No thanks, I don't intend to be part of your marketing database just because I bought a bottle of wine.

Your outrage over digital licenses based on the barcode contents shows that you have no idea how the digital drivers license system works. When you authorize it to send data to, for instance, a liquor store's scanner, your iPhone tells you exactly what info is being requested / what will be sent. In the case of a liquor store, all it's going to tell them is that you are, indeed, at least 21 years old. Nothing else about you - no name, no address, no age, no height, no eye/hair color, no birthdate, just verifiable proof that you're old enough to buy alcohol. It's far safer and far more private than your physical drivers license. Try learning how it actually works before getting so angry.

Also, the cops might have something to say about that ground down license, if you ever get pulled over.

 

[HighwaySnowman]

Your outrage over digital licenses based on the barcode contents shows that you have no idea how the digital drivers license system works. When you authorize it to send data to, for instance, a liquor store's scanner, your iPhone tells you exactly what info is being requested / what will be sent. In the case of a liquor store, all it's going to tell them is that you are, indeed, at least 21 years old. Nothing else about you - no name, no address, no age, no height, no eye/hair color, no birthdate, just verifiable proof that you're old enough to buy alcohol. It's far safer and far more private than your physical drivers license. Try learning how it actually works before getting so angry.

Also, the cops might have something to say about that ground down license, if you ever get pulled over.

You have no idea how risky it actually is.

And the little piggies might whine, but it's not illegal to make the barcode not work. All the info they'd need is on the front in plain text. I used to erase the magstripe when licenses had those, never had a pig whine. Haven't been pulled over since the barcodes showed up, but the lawyers I've mentioned it to didn't just agree with me, they took care of their barcodes too.

 

[tripper57]

Oklahoma backed out of this 3ish years ago when they released their own app but had to pull it due to handicap accessibility options. The state has said they have no plans to support or implement any new digital ID's and will not recognize any other states digital ID's.

Lazy state bureaucrats, no surprise

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Would you prefer that all those services were rolled out but you were told that you need to wait for your state to implement the digital licenses, and it'll be 3-4 years that you'll be forlornly staring at the ID reader terminals in all those places with no license to read?

The process has to start somewhere. Apple rolled out their part several years ago.

Yup. There was no way the scanner/reader hardware and supporting infrastructure for digital IDs was going to be bought and installed by businesses and government services until the user on-device data half of the system was already in place and in enough people's hands to make buying those scanners, etc. economical.