Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses, but privacy questions linger

Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses, but privacy questions linger

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https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/01/apple-digital-licenses-privacy/

Apple’s plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards, subway tickets, and student IDs. Next on Apple’s list to digitize are driver’s licenses and state IDs, which it plans to support in its iOS 15 update expected out later this year.

But to get there it needs help from state governments, since it’s the states that issue driver’s licenses and other forms of state identification, and every state issues IDs differently. Apple said today it has so far secured two states, Arizona and Georgia, to bring digital driver’s license and state IDs.

Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses, but privacy questions linger

Sep 1, 2021, 1:25pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/01/apple-digital-licenses-privacy/ > Apple’s plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards, subway tickets, and student IDs. Next on Apple’s list to digitize are driver’s licenses and state IDs, which it plans to support in its iOS 15 update expected out later this year. > But to get there it needs help from state governments, since it’s the states that issue driver’s licenses and other forms of state identification, and every state issues IDs differently. Apple said today it has so far secured two states, Arizona and Georgia, to bring digital driver’s license and state IDs.