Google announced on Tuesday that digital IDs were coming to more states and services on Google Wallet. The company has further shared that the wallet is getting a way to verify age personally and the app is expanding to another 50 countries.
Residents of Arkansas, Montana, Puerto Rico and West Virginia will soon be able to save their US government digital ID on Google Wallet. Plus, Arizona, Georgia, Maryland and New Mexico people will be able to use their mobile ID on DMV.
As the 1st May Real ID deadline is reached in 2021, Google notes that you can use an ID pass from your US passport to protect TSA for domestic travel at supported airports, even if you do not have a true ID driver’s license or state-jari ID. However, your ID pass is not a replacement of your physical ID, so you should still keep it with you.
Users will soon be able to recover their digital IDT Amazon accounts, access online health services with CVS and Mychart by Epic, verify profiles on platforms like Uber and more.
Furthermore, Google residents of the United Kingdom are gaining the ability to create digital ID passes with their UK passports and save them in Google Wallet.
Since many websites and services need verification, Google has said that it wanted to create a verification system that not only verifies the age of users but protects their privacy throughout the process. To achieve this, Google is integrating Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) technology in Google Wallet.
This integration will allow Google to provide fast age verification throughout mobile devices, applications and websites that use its digital certificate API. The company will use ZKP on other Google products and partner with applications like bamboo, which will use the digital ID from Google Wallet to verify the user’s identity and ZKP to verify the age. Google will also publish sources on other wallets and online services in Google.
For the expansion of 50 countries of the wallet, Google did not provide a list of certain countries. TechCrunch has reached to learn more.