Californians can now add their mobile driver's license to Google Wallet
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1. Continue to carry your physical driver’s license or state-issued ID card. Law enforcement, state government agencies, and businesses aren’t yet accepting the mDL.
2. The mDL is currently authorized for limited usage. There are many participating airports across the United States.
Right now the only main use case is tap-and-fly (can I make this term a thing?) where you don’t need to present your ID to TSA at select airports. Also, it has a nice design and looks cool.
The best use case is probably that it can work as a backup if you forget your ID at home when you’re trying to board a plane, or if you want to simplify what’s in your pockets prior to boarding.
This is old tech. I had a boss in the 90's who had an ignition interlock thing on his car and it wouldn't start unless he blew clean.
I found out about it when he was trying to find someone at work to blow into it so he could go home.
It wasn't until a couple of days later that I put it together that he managed to get so drunk during working hours that he couldn't drive himself home.
Hand sanitizer, fragrances trip interlock breathalyzers all the time, I wonder what could possibly go wrong?
Also who’s gonna pay for the towing and the reset/ recalibration after a false positive and why?
You could imagine a scenario where putting a phone into driver's license mode disables Face Unlock, and maybe even pauses all push notifications like text messages, and therefore is more secure because it forces people to put their phone into a password mode. So it'd actually encourage people, when talking to law enforcement, to increase their security settings.
I don't know if these companies currently do it like this, but they should.
This may have changed somewhat since I'm not in a position which requires me to do this anymore but this was the standard for years.
Which is why I always _highly_ recommend Californian's to get a private mail box or post office box and use that as your mailing address. Then your residence information is private and only law enforcement can see it.
Bouncers can use any excuse to decide to let you in or not so I guess they can just say no, show me your ID/driver's license and you are fucked if you don't have one. They can even decide unilaterally to not look at your smartphone screen if you have it in google wallet, you have little recourse. What will you do, sue them because they let your friends in but you stayed outside?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_Privacy_Protection_...
So, split that mailing address off, if you can.
If Hilton/marriott/IHG/choice/wyndham were not almost all franchised, then I bet they would institute global bans.
I can’t imagine bars are any different.
Besides, like you say, banning people. But that's legitimate.
And in terms of aggregating information, the credit card companies know who uses their cards there. ID's aren't adding anything useful.
AFAIK scanning ID's really is entirely about catching fakes and banning people who have misbehaved.
My simple rule is that a system should be categorized for what it does most of the time. I bet that person working the front door has scanned thousands of IDs, and probably only found a handful of fakes, if any.
So AFAIK, they are scanning IDs and collecting data, and every blue moon, a fake is found and it is then the entire system has found it's true purpose?
So yes, even if there's a fake only once every two weeks, or whatever you consider to be once in a "blue moon" -- that is the purpose of the system.
Believe me, bars don't check ID's because they want to. They do it because the legal consequences are extremely serious otherwise, and "but the ID looked real to our bouncer" isn't a defense, hence the scanning.
There's nothing naive. I think you just aren't familiar with the laws around this.
snark removed.
If you'll allow me to suggest the next goalpost, it would be some locations changing their policy to no longer accept physical IDs. That's probably a long way away, but it is a likely outcome, given our recent history.
If the States actually cared about these outcomes, they'd ally together, and create an ID "smartcard" standard, with special terminals, that can be used to present your ID and only release certain information with a PIN. The card would otherwise just have your name and ID number on it. Everything else would need to be digitally "released."
It's naive to not think the above or worse is possible
I see plenty of downsides but basically no upside (until someone gets their hands on the state's signing keys).
Take a look at cases that involve violations of the 4th amendment by cops and the insane hurdle that is qualified immunity and you will find out.
Google isn't getting any significant data here, AFAICS.
there should be a law against this.
Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28
At least today I can just limp along with Homebrew. I doubt self-hosting mDLs are in anyone's plans.
just because its possible to show it without unlocking it, doesn't mean they wont demand it.
Its techically legal for me to walk around with an AK 47 and a ski mask in my neighborhood but your most definitly getting ur rights violated by a swat team.
Also, it is opt-in and not mandatory. If you don't want to use it then don't bother. Nobody will force you to install the app or attach it with any of your docs.