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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 03:54:07 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mobile IDs promise convenience, but before you download your state’s app, there’s a few questions worth asking yourself. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/should-i-use-my-states-digital-drivers-license
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1. Should I Use My State’s Digital Driver’s License?
  
  from Thorin Klosowski
  
  A mobile driver’s license (often called an mDL) is a version of your ID that you keep on your phone instead of in your pocket. In theory, it would work wherever your regular ID works—TSA, liquor stores, to pick up a prescription, or to get into a bar. This sounds simple enough, and might even be...
- Mister Wanko (misterwanko@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:22:59 JST Mister Wanko
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  @eff your phone has to be unlocked to present it and then they can search your unlocked phone
  
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- Joseph Horgan (josephpmh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 13:41:07 JST Joseph Horgan
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  @eff one of the benefits of not having a "smart" phone.
  
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- John (sakata_m@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 14:22:25 JST John
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  @eff Only if it can work without unlocking the phone. If you have to unlock the phone, then personally I'd say hell no. If I have to unlock my phone and hand it to someone like say, a police officer, to read it, that opens up too many other cans of worms.
  
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