At that point, where do you draw the line of privacy? You're carrying with you an object that you can't trust 100% and can work against you anytime.
This is truly chilling dystopian type stuff. Soon a cell phone will be required for every "person."
I have my payment cards on my watch. Pre-pandemic, my gym membership card was on my watch. If I had my ID on my watch as well, I don't ever have to worry about a wallet being stolen because I wouldn't carry one.
Sure, people can steal your watch at gunpoint- but it can be remotely disabled (even if you were forced to give your passcode under duress), and you'd still have a physical ID card at home you can use.
For most people on this site, this kind of threat is far more likely than the mugging you described.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/silicon-v...
1. Keep using a drivers licence in card form.
2. If you want to use it in phone form instead despite your dispute with google and apple, have it on a phone thats not made by google or apple.
3. If you insist on using a google or apple phone for your drivers licence phone app despite your dispute with google and apple, just leave it off after putting your licence on it except for when you need your licence, and don't connect it to the internet.
Eg. If you're an ex-Google employee or contractor, use a personal iPhone without any Google apps on them.
Is having a computer a requirement to be part of modern society? It certainly helps, and the vast majority of people use them for the convivence, but its not required.
Often does work against you really.
Maybe that's just the marketing working on 11 and I'm to tuned in, or maybe everyone is into it and I'm the one that doesn't care.