Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14967490

Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.

The badge will first appear on over 3,000 apps for 12 different countries.

  • shortwavesurfer
    98·
    8 months ago

    I’ll take my ID in my physical wallet. Thanks very much. LOL. I get what you mean, though.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      61·
      8 months ago

      I think its actually open souce, but they recently had a really bad security problem in their application and never really admitted that it was critical. So yeah im good for now, i really hate the move to storing the exact same data that was on a chip before, in an app that can have software problems and analytics.

      • shortwavesurfer
        25·
        8 months ago

        That’s my thought as well. Our phones really do not need to become absolutely everything because then it becomes really easy to track and really terrible to lose which you are bound to do eventually.

    • Turun@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      It provides the capability to authenticate yourself online, e.g. for banking services. It would also be able to prove to a website that you are over 18, without telling the website your birthday. I have yet to use it, but from a technical standpoint it’s pretty awesome.

      Edit: to clear up some confusion that may exist: as far as I know the app provides the bridge between the chip in the ID card and the application that needs the authentication. No data needs to be stored in the app.