Google Wallet for Android now supports digital IDs

[MuzzMelbourne]

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https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/google-wallet-for-android-now-supports-digital-ids/

Google Wallet on Android is finally getting ready for your digital driver's license and other US state IDs. Google says the feature is rolling out this month, and it will slowly start bringing states online this year. Of course, your state has to be one of the few that actually supports digital IDs. Google says Maryland residents can use the feature right now and that "in the coming months, residents of Arizona, Colorado and Georgia will join them."

The road to digital driver's license support has been a long one, with the "Identity Credential API" landing in Android 11 in 2020. Since then, it has technically been possible for states to make their own ID app. Now Google Wallet, Google's re-re-reboot of its payment app, is providing a first-party way to store an ID on your phone. Some parts of the Identity Credential API landed in Google Play Services (Google's version-agnostic brick of APIs), so Wallet supports digital IDs going back to Android 8.0, which covers about 90 percent of Android devices.

Google Wallet for Android now supports digital IDs

The state-by-state rollout is still a huge mess, but Android is ready, at least.

arstechnica.com

 

[Zero Knowledge]

Not sure about this, but Google is decent with security so let's hope this doesn't become another data set to be stolen by criminals.