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iOS 13's newly expanded NFC support will be useful for more than just hopping on the subway. Germany is taking advantage of the upcoming software's support for Apple-approved NFC identification documents to let residents scan their ID cards and use them both online and for check-ins at international airports. You'll need to wait for both the release of iOS 13 (likely in September) and the German government's AusweisApp2 to make everything work, but this might just save you the trouble of pulling out your wallet to prove who you are.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/17/germany-ios-13-id-card-nfc-support/
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Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards
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(Score: 2) by Chocolate on Wednesday June 19 2019, @03:27AM (5 children)
Just wondering because so far not one place has given a rationale for taking a photocopy of ID to the point of refusing to give a room key for a room already booked and paid for online just for asking why it is needed.
"We must prove this is you getting your room key so a photocopy of a driver's license is needed" is complete bullshit
Bit-choco-coin anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 19 2019, @03:35AM (1 child)
Yes. Mostly just to piss you off.
Then again, it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. Unless you're into that kind of thing.
Now you know.
(Score: 1) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 19 2019, @07:00AM
This is not about Donald Trump, it is Germany. Here, have some Starbursts [google.com], and don't say I never gave you anything!
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday June 19 2019, @03:58AM (1 child)
Thinking back to the last few times I stayed at a hotel, while I was asked for ID (and a credit card for incidentals), no one photocopied my ID or scanned it or anything.
They looked at it and (presumably, as they didn't say that's what they were doing) verified that the name matched the credit card and the reservation and handed it back to me.
In fact, I'm not sure that's ever happened when I've checked into a hotel. I suppose it's possible and I don't remember, but definitely not in the past five years or so.
Is it a particular hotel chain (or country) you're referring to?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Chocolate on Friday June 21 2019, @03:12PM
Not one in particular, no. All of them in two cities required to photocopy a license, and none would provide their policy in writing saying why it was needed. All of them checked the credit card against photo ID, even though the credit card policy says they should not do this.
Bit-choco-coin anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 19 2019, @03:24PM
I guess for those situations the iPhone thing is an advantage: Even if they make a photocopy of your iPhone, it probably won't reveal much. :-)