Re: digital id

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
 

 
There are lots more bad actors capable of stealing your digital and
online files than there are those who can steal your physical wallet.

Who said anything about online? A digital passport in your phone's wallet
is not "online".

If that stuff is accessible digitally online

It isn't.

then it's already at a
higher risk, regardless of encryption level. 

Utter rubbish. How is an encrypted digital entity less secure than a
unencrypted openly visible paper passport in a bad actor's hands.

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? 

In US loads of times because there's no oversight and even less so now. In
other countries it's rare, because the regulatory penalties can be very
serious. In the UK for example, the fine can be up to 4% of annual *global*
sales. So if Apple or Google were to fuck up they risk fines of hundreds of
millions.

Yet again Europe is keeping your companies in check for you. You're
welcome.

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.

Exactly.