Just a friendly reminder that if you store your government ID on your phone and find yourself in a situation where you have to show a cop your ID, you'll have to hand them your unlocked phone to do it.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23745168/google-wallet-state-id-drivers-license-custom-cards
Google Wallet is getting custom cards and state IDs this month

Google Wallet users will soon be able to add their state ID or driver’s licenses to Google Wallet and can create a digital version of any card that features a barcode or QR code.

The Verge

Yo this is getting boosted enough that I'm getting a lot of replies talking about the technical precautions that are taken to make this safe so let me be clear:

Folks like me were talking about how nervous it makes us that tech companies are keeping so much data on stuff like locations and even menstruation cycles. Folks like you called us paranoid.

Then states made abortion illegal & immediately police started subpoenaing that data to arrest women.

You're wrong. Consistently and dangerously.

The precautions that tech companies put in place (because historically they're so very careful right?) are irrelevant when the people trying to bypass those precautions have the threat of state-sanctioned violence backing them up implicitly.

"Unlock your phone so I can make sure that isn't a lock screen wallpaper"

See how easy that was? They can say whatever the fuck they want.

You ever try to "show your ID" by leaving it in your wallet? They make you take it out. Why? Because fuck you.

You know what you can't be doing if you hand your phone to a police officer, whether it remains locked on the ID or not?

You can't be recording the police officer on that phone.

So let me say it real loud for the people at the back who think that the convenience of not carrying a 10mm piece of plastic is worth putting folks who are disproportionately targeted by police in even greater risk:

DO NOT PUT YOUR FUCKING STATE ID ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE.

@rodhilton It never occurred to put my state id on my phone; is this common? Re: letting the police take your locked phone: you can't record the encounter, and this could be trouble.
@wx1g @rodhilton I’m astonished & baffled that people are even able to use a phone pic as a substitute for a gov-issued doc w/holograms, chips, biometric data… I keep a digitized copy only as *backup*. I figure if I somehow get separated from the real physical doc, the digital copy might work in a pinch but would be likely useless in all but the most lenient of requesters.
@rodhilton @wx1g I’d love to be a high-schooler hitting the liquor stores these days w/only a gimp’d ID to adjust my DoB, if these dodgy means of ID are actually being accepted.
@wx1g @rodhilton Ah.. sorry I just read the article. It’s not just a digitized image. It’s some #GoogleWallet shit in collaboration w/govs. Well, fuck that. If someone is foolish enough to feed #Google, I’d say they don’t have the wisdom to work in their own interest when dealing w/police anyway.