Not sure if true, but someone raised an issue when this was first announced. That you can no longer refuse to unlock your phone when stopped, since you’ll have to unlock it to show your digital driver’s license.
Do you have to unlock? You can open wallet from blocked screen without unlocking phone
As of now the law seems to be that you’d still need to show a physical ID to police, this wouldn’t be seen as valid. Tbh this doesn’t seem useful
As of now they’re still considering this a test, so people have to still carry and have available their physical ID in any situation.
But, off the top of my head, say you’re going through security and already have your plane ticket on your phone, that is all you will need to have out.
If you’re buying some booze at the circle K and already planning to pay with your phone, again no need to get out your wallet.
I dunno if the ends justify the means, but use-case is kinda fun I guess
Boarding a plane by scanning a QR code off my watch stills feels pretty cool even though you’ve been able to do it for years now.
Caveat: Californians who add a driver’s license to their Apple or Google wallets must still carry their physical ID card as required by law.
What’s the point, then? I thought the reason for a digital ID was so you didn’t always need the physical one with you.
I suppose it could be used to streamline ID verification for online purchases? I vape, and whenever I order supplies online I have to go through an ID verification process, usually involving uploading a photo of my driver’s license to some system. If they had a way to tokenize this step, that would make the ordering process a lot simpler.
Could also perhaps be used for something like carding at a bar; just a quick tap on their tablet and they don’t have to sit there looking for watermarks and stuff if you look too young to be there.
I have never had to do this to purchase anything online!
It’s so people can trial having digital IDs. Some TSA and others can scan the new IDs, but not everyone can. So in the meantime, you have to carry your physical one too.
People are pointing out potential negatives, but this has some good possibilities for privacy too. If you show your ID at the liquor store, there’s no need for the clerk to know your name or address. The scanner can just verify your age.
It’s so those companies can connect your profile to your driving record.
Politicians in Texas would love this. They want you to verify your identity to view certain sites.
This would put an undue burden on all citizens to have one or the others’ platform in order to be in public, which would be illegal on a ton of fronts.
It’s bullshit. Whoever said that is absolutely paranoid.
It’ll take so long before you can even leave your physical ID at home and count on everyone accepting your digital one. And it may never happen that people stop accepting your physical one.
