It doesn't exactly 'broadcast' your ID, physical proximity to your phone is still needed. It's like adding a loyalty card, etc. to apple wallet where you can just tap your device to the reader.
I'm hoping it's like Apple Pay, where I choose and authorize with Face ID + button. It shouldn't be passively readable. Anyways, it will be awhile before it applies in California. CA DMV is not an early adopter of this.
According to the announcement, that's exactly how it works. It uses the same functions as Apple Pay, Transit Passes, and Rewards cards to authenticate/authorize and then uses the new digital ID standard to present.
That's what they said about RFID until it was broken, and people starting building hardware that could snoop on it from a backpack several meters away.
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