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How Google is building digital ID solutions that protect user privacy

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Here’s why, and how, we’re working with industry partners to build digital ID solutions that protect user privacy and security. Imagine starting a vacation like this: You arrive at the airport and breeze through security by tapping your phone to a reader, scanning your boarding pass and ID. While waiting to board, you grab a drink at an airport bar, tapping your phone to prove your age. When you arrive at your destination, you find your rental car and leave the lot without stopping for an in-person ID check because you already provided the necessary information in the rental car app. You check into your hotel online and your key is issued straight to your digital wallet. You do all of this with your phone — no physical wallet required. This may feel futuristic, but it could be reality soon. In fact, today people with select U.S. state-issued IDs are able to present their ID in Google Wallet to go through TSA checkpoints in dozens of U.S. airports. To make digital IDs even more useful,

How we're working to make digital identity a reality for everyone Sep 12, 2024 | x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link Here’s why, and how, we’re working with industry partners to build digital ID solutions that protect user privacy and security. Alan Stapelberg Group Product Manager, Google Wallet Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link Imagine starting a vacation like this: You arrive at the airport and breeze through security by tapping your phone to a reader, scanning your boarding pass and ID. While waiting to board, you grab a drink at an airport bar, tapping your phone to prove yo

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