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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My old leather wallet is just fine, but thanks anyway.
If you abstain from making electronic transactions, you won’t get pregnant.
I should probably give Apple all my financial information as well. Why not?
Correct! đ
“As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you’ll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of L.A. for at least 48 hours. Blows my weekend.”
uhh huh..
and crapple won’t scan your photos or anything either
Apple isn't trying to reach out to this 0.01% of the population.
I'm already doing this.
I keep a photo of my drivers license on my iPhone and I use Apple Pay, Kroger Pay, Walmart Pay, etc. for all my purchases.
Sometimes I'll give my 12-year old son my iPhone and send him on errands to the grocery store. He knows how to use all of that as well. I'll probabIy buy him his own iPhone soon and install all of that on it because I trust him. I rarely ever handle cash and these days I rarely handle even my debit card.
Then you drop your phone and it breaks or gets lost so now you have no ID, no money, no way to get into your own home, etc. etc. No thanks.
My grandkids use apps on iPhones to alter their image, both in photo and video chats. They’ll be doing this to D.L. images!
Same here. I also keep a copy of my auto registrations & insurance cards. I hate carrying anything that I donât need to.
A couple of years ago I was stopped for speeding & the CHP took my info off the phone pics. Since it worked, I rarely ever carry more than my phone & keys. I wish I could open & start my car with my phone so I could ditch the keys.
And so will everyone else.
Yep, Iâve had a few iPhones brick out on me. What a bonus that would be.
Huge & intended boon for identity theft.
This has nothing to do with stealing your ID. It is about having a private company present something represented as an official government ID.
The more people involved every time you present an ID to do something like vote, the more places there are to introduce a fraudulent ID. They are scrambling for a way to overcome voter ID laws that are coming.
They already have it.
Embracing a cashless societyâŚwhat could possibly go wrong?
OK....so carry a wallet. I don’t blame you. There is too much stuff on the phones to worry about losing.
Including vaccine passports.... and social score systems...
There is a problem with that theory - there is a reason that this new idea requires a state to sign on - the data verification and validation for an ID to be stored in Apple Wallet requires server calls -
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