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• gruez 2y ago
  So have a physical backup? I don't see how this is different than using google pay. Sure it could get declined, but that's why I have physical cards as backup.
  • akira2501 2y ago
    Google pay and your cards are equivalent and offer equivalent privacy to you. The digital IDs entire reason for existing is removed by reverting to the physical backup, plus you have to keep it with you, and risk losing it which also damages your privacy differently. 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."
    • teaearlgraycold 2y ago
      The benefit of mDL isn’t that you don’t need your physical card. It allows for limited information dispersal. And it is a backup for your physical card.