Re: digital id

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 12:42:52 -0400, badgolferman
<REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

On 07/08/2025 12:14, Chris in Makati wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 11:01:17 -0400, badgolferman
<REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Some states allow digital drivers licenses in Apple Wallet and even TSA
is accepting digital passports now too.  Has anyone here done this?
What advantage have you found?  What could possibly go wrong with this
scenario?  It seems like a privacy nightmare in the making.

 
I'm not sure why it would be a privacy nightmare. I would think an ID
is more secure on a phone that it is in a paper format such as we have
now with driver's licenses and passports. It's the same with credit
cards. Apple Pay is more secure than a plastic card.
 
For me, the more things that can be made digital and put on a phone
the better so that I don't need to carry so much around in a physical
wallet.
 
Chris
 

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There are lots more bad actors capable of stealing your digital and
online files than there are those who can steal your physical wallet.
If that stuff is accessible digitally online then it's already at a
higher risk, regardless of encryption level.  How often do you read or
see on the news that the most protected data has been breached by
privacy thieves from thousands of miles away?  How often do people get
their identities stolen from a random database?  At least my wallet is
in my direct possession and no one will get their hands on it unless
they have direct physical access to it, and that would only happen if
I'm mugged or careless.

Do you think that the government departments that issue your driver's
license and passport don't also store that data in their computer
systems? What makes them immune from attack by hackers?

In any case, I'd say it would be a lot easier to pickpocket someone's
wallet from their person than it would be to break into and retrieve
encrypted data from Apple's systems.

Chris