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The UK government is launching a digital ID mobile app (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Great. Now I gotta start carrying two phones. My real phone, and a dummy for this dummy app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This kind of thing is an excellent way to bamboozle people into handing authority figures your phone, which is one of the worst things you can do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The verge even wrote an article about why you shouldn't use these ID apps. I'm surprised they didn't mention it in this one.

Article: Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

And ofc the app is closed source.