• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As I recall, you don’t need to unlock your phone to share your ID.

    • You tap an NFC reader with your locked phone
    • The reader asks you to share certain information (for example, a bar might just ask for birthday and photo)
    • you approve the encrypted data share via biometrics
    • the share completes and returns to your Lock Screen
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        2 months ago

        I haven’t been pulled over in years.

        And the digital IDs are in the second phase of a pilot program in CA. People are still required to drive with physical IDs because the readers are not widespread.

        It’s a new thing. The goal is to have readers in all sorts of places. Right not they’re basically only at airports.

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          2 months ago

          Must be nice. I can’t remember the last time I drove across Louisiana and didn’t get pulled over in some podunk town whose only source of income is speeding tickets. We’ve had digital IDs here for years, and I can’t help but think that getting people to handover an unlocked phone is exactly the point.

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            2 months ago

            Yeah, I can’t speak for Louisiana, but in CA the goal appears to be to avoid handing over unlocked phones, since that completely negates the privacy / security pitch behind digital IDs.