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  • Apple's iOS 15 to reportedly use facial recognition to validate ID cards

    johnhwoodjohnhwood
    apple_evo said:
    This is a very slippery slope. 
    Imagine the day when you chose to put your drivers license on your phone, and you get pulled over. You'll need to unlock your phone and swipe over to your wallet-app and bring up the ID to show the officer. What's that officer going to do next? Go back to his squad car and scroll through your entire unlocked phone looking for anything and at everything. You'll say that's an invasion of privacy and they will say "hey you unlocked it and gave it to me!!" 

    If anyone at Apple cares about the right to privacy (at least in the United States), there should be a way to open the wallet, load the ID of choice and display it until a password is entered or the phone runs out of battery.
    We've already got this technology in Australia. 

    Your license is issued by the state transport authority. When you get pulled over you show you electronic license. If the officer needs to verify there is a QR code they can scan which cross checks in their system. 

    No handing over your phone. 

    Thats 20th century thinking with 21st century technology.  
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  • Retailers, payments association side with Australian banks over Apple Pay negotiations

    johnhwoodjohnhwood
    Not really a surprise. 3 out of 4 banks that form a cartel trying to control the market. Coles Supermarket - 1 of 2 Duopoly jumping on the bandwagon to control their rewards programs and credit cards. Reduces their ability to mine data from purchases if Apple controls the payments mechanism. No need to leave Australia though. You think they should leave every country that puts up a fight? Its called disruption for a reason.
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