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From: badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: digital id
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 12:42:52 -0400
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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. 
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.