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On 2025-07-08, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

Apple Wallet data stored in iCloud is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple
cannot access it. You're also in full control of whether Wallet data is
synchronized to iCloud at all. Where's this "privacy nightmare"?

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digital id badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2025-07-08 11:01 -0400
  Re: digital id Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2025-07-08 17:14 +0100
    Re: digital id badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2025-07-08 12:42 -0400
      Re: digital id Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-07-08 23:07 +0000
        Re: digital id Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-07-09 07:26 +0200
        Re: digital id Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-09 06:25 +0000
          Re: digital id Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-07-09 14:07 +0200
          Re: digital id Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-07-09 16:33 +0000
        Re: digital id Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-07-10 21:28 +0000
      Re: digital id Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2025-07-09 11:55 +0100
        Re: digital id Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-09 12:15 +0000
      Re: digital id Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-07-09 20:38 +0000
        Re: digital id Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-10 10:16 +0000

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