Re: digital id

On 2025-07-08, 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.

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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.

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Apple Wallet data stored in iCloud is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple
cannot access it. You're also in full control of whether Wallet data
is synchronized to iCloud at all. Where's this "privacy nightmare"?