STATES WHICH ALLOW DRIVER’S LICENSES
TO BE UPLOADED
TO USE AS A DIGITAL ID IN APPLE WALLET
PING!
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Posted on 09/01/2021 3:33:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In Apple's vision of the future, you and I would leave our homes without physical wallets. Instead we'd walk out the front door carrying only the virtual wallets stored on our iPhones. We wouldn't bring keys, either.
That hope for the future is creeping into the present as Apple unveiled that you can now upload your driver's license to Apple Wallet in select states across the US. Arizona and Georgia will be the first to access the driver's license feature, followed by Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma and Utah.
The feature was announced at WWDC earlier this year. It came alongside other Apple Wallet updates that allow your iPhone to hold digital versions of your house keys, hotel room keys and workplace IDs. All these changes are expected to come with iOS 15, which is said to roll out sometime in the fall. (Here's how to download the public beta version now.)
Digitizing your driver's license and other ID cards isn't a new idea. Google and chipmaker Qualcomm announced their project to store a digital driver's license in Android phones way back in 2019 -- but it appears that iPhones will begin using the new feature first. Security and privacy issues are the biggest roadblocks and areas of highest concern. Apple says it secures your IDs with the same technology and encryption backing your credit cards in Apple Pay.
Once you set up your driver's license and other ID cards in the iPhone, you'll be able to present your identification on your iPhone or Apple Watch at airport security (yes, it'll be supported by the TSA on a state-by-state basis) and any other business that accepts the new technology as proof of ID.
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Sounds like a hacker’s paradise to me
Biometrics is even easier. Not that I’m in favor of it - just know that it’s coming.
Uh, not everyone has an apple phone. Some folks don’t even carry a cell phone at all nor do the want to. Weird huh?
I’m in Mississippi.
If I’m not mistaken, we can download our DL on the Waffle House App.
How about our CCWs and DD214s?
That's a feature, not a bug.
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This is a great idea. Because I was thinking to myself just the other day, “How can I make even more of my personal information available to hackers and other assorted snoops?”
Sounds like a hacker’s paradise to me
I foresee a sudden explosion of new Chinese, Indian, and Mexican drivers with the surnames of “Smith” and “Jones” ...
No way would I put that stuff into the ether.
You’re talking crazy.
You need a mental wellness check like the
USMC Lt. Col. that dared hold his superiors accountable.
Using Apple Wallet or Applepay is more secure than using a credit or debit card.
Yee haw! Every 12 year old will be able to steal every last bit of private identity.
Bwahahaha 🤣🤣🤣 thank you.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
How about our CCWs and DD214’s?.
Here in California, we did the DD214 about 4-5 years ago. My drivers license says, Veteran and so does my state ID card.
I even helped to run a little seminar for the local DMV employees re DD214’s.
My wife carries my non Cali driving license ID card to get discounts at stores when I am not with her.
Not likely… The Apple Wallet is protected by either TouchID fingerprint security or by FaceID facial recognition… neither of which has been truly successfully been hacked without LOTS of sophisticated and expensive technology.
The Apple TouchID does not read fingerprints so cannot be spoofed by lifted or copied images of user’s fingerprints, but reads instead the patterns of the ridges and valleys of a living user’s subcutaneous fat pads below the user’s skin where a fingerprint actually exists. Apple’s FaceID does not scan and compare a stored photo image of the user’s face, but instead makes an infrared 3D topographical terrain map of 30,000 to 90,000 (older to newer tech) different locations (via LIDAR) on the user’s face that are then processed utilizing a specialized neural engine processor running at 5 to 11 trillion operations per second to assure the user is indeed the correct authorized user.
You’d have to unlock the iOS device first to get at the ID first, and if you can do that, you could also unlock the Apple Wallet. If you could do that, you’d already have direct and full access to the credit and debit cards already in the Apple Wallet. The driver’s license would be superfluous to having access to those.
Yes just ask the Taliban about biometrics. They’re going to become experts in it because the US gave them all that information through our state department.
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