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 physica

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."