Apple announced that Arizona is the first state to offer driver’s license and state ID in Wallet. Starting today, Arizonans can add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet, and tap their iPhone or Apple Watch to seamlessly and securely present it at select TSA security checkpoints in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Great, so now they can add NFC to facial recognition, geo-fencing, and all their other shitty anti-human methods of controlling decent people. Give it thirty years (or three, at the rate things are accelerating), and they'll stop issuing physical licenses and will require you to carry a tracker at all times.
Not trying to shill but recently saw there is a dumbphone that communicates using Signal's E2E encrypted protocol, which seems like it would be good for anyone concerned about pervasive tracking. https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
Great, so now they can add NFC to facial recognition, geo-fencing, and all their other shitty anti-human methods of controlling decent people. Give it thirty years (or three, at the rate things are accelerating), and they'll stop issuing physical licenses and will require you to carry a tracker at all times.
You already do, unless you dont have a cellphone.
I currently have the right not to have a tracker, and exercise it frequently.
bUt U hAvE a SmArT pHoNe = shitlib brainlets lmao
Getting a dumbphone is an option.
Not trying to shill but recently saw there is a dumbphone that communicates using Signal's E2E encrypted protocol, which seems like it would be good for anyone concerned about pervasive tracking. https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
Tracked people while attending churches and also members of the Navajo nation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10779833/CDC-used-location-data-millions-cell-phones-track-lockdown-compliance.html