Google Wallet can now be your passport at many airports

Dec 07, 2024 03:50 AM - 1 month ago 60233

The feature, initially announced earlier this year, lets you create a integer ID from your passport.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes astir technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted respective accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Dec 6, 2024, 8:50 PM UTC

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Google is now rolling retired the expertise to make a integer ID from your passport that you tin shop successful Google Wallet and usage astatine prime TSA checkpoints.

Here’s really to make the ID, per Google’s September blog post wherever it initially announced the feature:

Select the punctual successful the Google Wallet app to “create an ID walk pinch your U.S. passport” and travel the instructions to scan the information spot successful the backmost of your passport. You’ll beryllium asked to return a selfie video to verify your identity, and Google Wallet will notify you erstwhile your ID walk is fresh (typically wrong a fewer minutes).

However, successful that blog post, Google besides cautions that a integer ID successful Google Wallet is “not a replacement for your beingness ID” and that you should still transportation a beingness ID erstwhile walking “for now.”

The integer ID characteristic will beryllium disposable to “all eligible users successful the coming weeks,” according to Jenny Cheng, VP and GM of Google Wallet. You tin spot a representation of which airports judge integer IDs on the TSA’s website.

Cheng besides shared that New Mexico driver’s licenses and authorities IDs tin beryllium saved successful Google Wallet. New Mexico is the sixth authorities to support the feature, 9to5Google reports.