There is an interesting phenomenon of the US government starting to outsource what it would like to do over to willing big tech conglomerates and their captive audiences. Glenn Greenwald wrote an article about the same (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...), showing how legislators are outsourcing government driven censorship to private companies in what seems like a loophole in how free speech is protected in US law. I worry that the coming normalization of IDs in the hands of big tech will come with similar breaches of trust.
I live in Arizona - not sure when they will actually roll this out. I am on the newest iOS beta and it is not there yet.
re: other comments here: If you keep location tracking turned off for all apps except when, for example, you need driving directions, then how does this increase the problem of being tracked?
I guess it's the American way, but seems strange to outsource this to Apple, here in Ukraine there is a government developed app with similar features, it can hold your driving license, car registration, id card etc
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