After allowing him to open his car with a digital law, Apple plans to update iPhones with technology that would replace physical documents like library cards, driver’s licenses, passports, and other documents used for verification.
A number of different patent applications have been filed, all under the name ‘Providing Verified Claims for User Identity,’ reports AppleInsider.
All of these patents describe a specific method on how the user can record and transmit their ID and confirm it, although Apple didn’t really mention the word iPhone even once.
Instead, the company says it could be any piece of technology.
“A device that implements a system to use a verified identity claim includes at least one processor configured to receive a verified claim that includes information to identify the user of a device,” says one of those applications.
“The verified claim is signed by a server based on verification of information by a separate identity verification provider from the server, the verified claim is device specific,” the app said.
According to the patent documents, a user will be able to use their iPhone to transmit an identification, and if the user is verified, for example, by biometric data from Apple Watch, the identification will be confirmed.
However, the requests were mainly for passports, but the company has also detailed that it could be used for other identification cards such as a driver’s license.
Apple has previously worked on secure ways to present government identification, and has worked with the governments of Germany and the United Kingdom to assist local identification projects.
Luxury car maker BMW announced this week that its BMW Connected app for iPhone and Apple Watch has been updated with digital key holder.
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