Google quietly expanded digital ID support in Wallet to four new markets: India, Singapore, Taiwan, and Brazil. The company announced it through a blog post, opening up a feature that could genuinely matter to hundreds of millions of people.
In India, the integration runs deeper than a passport scan.
Google built on its existing UIDAI partnership to let users save Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials directly on-device. Thatβs your national identity, digitized, sitting in your phone.
Early partners include PVR INOX for age verification at cinemas, BharatMatrimony for verified profile matching, and Atlys for auto-filling visa applications with a single tap.
Mygate and Snabbit are coming soon, targeting residential security and gig worker verification.
Brazil, Singapore, and Taiwan get something slightly different.
Users there can generate an ID pass built from passport data and store it in Wallet. Itβs designed for both in-person and online situations where age or identity verification is required.
Signing into accounts, proving youβre old enough to watch an R-rated film, that sort of thing. The privacy architecture here is worth understanding.
Google is leaning on a concept called selective disclosure, where only the specific fields needed for a given transaction get shared. You donβt hand over your full identity just to confirm youβre over 18.
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