iPhone and the Apple Watch could be used in the future to replace our bulletins, passports and other identification documents issued by government authorities. Everything is disclosed by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), within the framework of an invention patent registered during the past days for the American company, it presenting applications that would allow the registration of these documents in digital format.
The iPhone would use NFC to read the chips of electronic passports, or other similar identification documents, the information being automatically stored in an application. Apple already has the Wallet application that allows storing a variety of information in the iPhone and Apple Watch, so expanding its functionality for identification documents would not be that difficult for Americans to do.
The iPhone is described in this patent as having the ability to do the same readings that the authorities do when they want to read the information on the face of a passport. Of course, Apple should also collaborate with the authorities to be able to implement such functionality in the iPhone, but the idea itself is excellent and could save us from carrying physical documents with us.
The iPhone can be transformed by those from Apple into a very useful gadget, especially since in some countries it even allows the abandonment of physical bank cards. Apple can take the same idea to make physical authentication documents forgotten, so it will be interesting to see if this technology will ever be transformed into something real.
"In one embodiment, a computing device includes a short-range radio and a secure element. The computing device reads, via the short-range radio, a portion of credential information stored in a circuit embedded in an identification document issued by an authority to a user for establishing an identity of the user. The computing device issues, to the authority, a request to store the credential information, the request specifying the portion of the credential information."
