Digital State IDs Start Rollouts Despite Privacy Concerns

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Apple has unveiled the first eight states that will roll out digital IDs and drivers licenses on its mobile devices, despite critics’ concerns that the introduction of purely digital forms of identification will raise privacy, security and equanimity issues.
 
Arizona and Georgia will be the first states to introduce the ability for their residents to add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet on their iPhone and Apple Watch, the company said Wednesday. Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma and Utah will follow.
 
The plan is in cooperation with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which also will establish certain airport security checkpoints and lanes for people wanting to use their digital DLs and IDs to pass through, as the United States government begins testing the rollout.
 
“The addition of driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet is an important step in our vision of replacing the physical wallet with a secure and easy-to-use mobile wallet,” said Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet, in a press statement unveiling the news.
 
Apple first unveiled a plan to provide digital ID in its iOS in June at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The technology will be available with the release of iOS 15, which is expected sometime this autumn.

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