Google Wallet Widely Rolling Out 'Everything Else' Pass Creator In the US (9to5google.com) 18
Google is rolling out a new feature for Google Wallet that uses AI to generate a digital version of IDs, tickets, and other passes. "Replacing the old 'Photo' option, Everything else lets you 'Scan a photo of any pass like an event ticket, gym membership, insurance card, and more' to create a digital version that appears in Google Wallet," writes 9to5Google's Abner Li. "The app explains how AI is leveraged to 'determine what kind of pass you're adding and to suggest the content of the pass.'" From the report: If you're adding something sensitive with health or government ID information, it will be classified as private and not get synced to other devices, while authentication is required before opening. However, you can change the private pass classification later. After taking a picture of the pass, Google will extract the information and let you edit common fields, as well as add your own. At this stage, you can change the pass type [...]. When finalized, it will appear below your carousel of credit/debit cards. Google will let you access the original "Pass photos" when viewing the digital copy.
All your IDs are belong to us (Score:3)
Don't you just love it when Google can link up all your IDs and memberships to your ad profile?
...even the fake ones. (Score:3)
AI? (Score:2)
So ... totally not fake documents (Score:2)
a new feature for Google Wallet that uses AI to generate a digital version of IDs, tickets, and other passes. ... "The app explains how AI is leveraged to 'determine what kind of pass you're adding and to suggest the content of the pass.'" After taking a picture of the pass, Google will extract the information and let you edit common fields, as well as add your own.
Generate a digital version of an official document using AI to suggest the content of that document and letting you edit common fields. Where was this when I was too young to buy beer ...
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I tried it out and it works pretty well. I scanned my health insurance card and it detected the type then filled out all the fields correctly. Seems like it's a good use for cards like that where I give the wrong number, it's my problem but not really for cases where the card data is being used to validate something
Bad grammar aside (Score:2)
Wading through the bad grammar, it seems Google Wallet creates a text summary of the photo, then allows one to edit the summary. Editing the photo would be an obvious gateway to fake documents.
Not using a document scanner is a step backwards in my mind, although with everyone having a camera in their pocket, few places have a document scanner.
And what's the purpose? (Score:2)
Which organization, institution or company with more than 5 braincells combined over the board accepts PHOTOS of the tickets/IDs/Cards that they handed out?
I'm not spending $1 per ticket on security paper for printing (shows a red line when tearing off the ticket stub) and then let everyone in who took a picture of the ticket from facebook !
No matter if they use AI or traditional OCR to scan the picture
Not to mention the workflow from using AI to create an image of a fake ID and then give that picture to th
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Which organization, institution or company with more than 5 braincells combined over the board accepts PHOTOS of the tickets/IDs/Cards that they handed out?
Just about all of them.
Your company accepts photos of receipts to pay your expenses.
Open an account in any online bank and they'll ask you to take a picture of your ID card front and back, then a selfie with you holding the ID card.
Same thing if you open an OnlyFans for example.
And guess what: if you print out a fake ID with a fake number, laminate it, crop it and use that to open a bank account with a fake name and a fake national ID number, it works just fine because most of them either don't check or don
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These aren't ideal examples. The ID check in a bank is a legally mandated nuisance to them as it is to you. They want you as customer and too thorough ID-checks could prevent that. So they do the minimum they get away. They could at least check holographic sticker, or UV markings.but they just don't care.
Same only fans with id as age-verification.
That's why new laws and regulations say that taking a selfie with your ID is not enough to open a bank account. You need to use the chip/nfc to digitally sign your
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Almost all places that accept tickets now require a digital ticket or they let you print it out. Having a picture of a ticket is no different.
Plenty of places have membership programs where you can show them your card, but they'll also accept telling them the number if you don't have it, no problem there with a picture of a card either
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But they have barcodes or QR codes which can be scanned by a wallet software (or sent as pkpass).
This new feature claims, it can turn anything into a digital ticket - thanks to AI - but does nothing that a camera app wouldn't do either. (And won't work where a camera app wouldn't have worked)
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A couple examples:
I scanned a membership card I have with a bar code, it put all the information into a neat card in the google wallet and provided a scannable bar code. It wasn't a standard type, so I just had to give it a title of "Membership Card" and the rest of the work was done.
I scanned a health insurance card, it has no bar code, but google wallet collected all the info and identified it as a health card in an easy to read card
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Yes. But again: Wasn't the first example possible without that "new" "AI" feature? I couls store cards with barcodes for a while.
And the second one? Are the numbers on a card enough to get service or is there any copy protection on it? Health provider here need to read the chip from your health insurance card. So it's nice if Google Wallet now can store a easy to read photo of your card - but it's not helping when the health service provider needs to read the chip or NFC.
If that second scenario works depend
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Oh I'm sure the AI stuff is somewhat overblown, but it's the same as accounting software scanning receipts and analyzing the info on them.
Health insurance here (USA) is just a number/name combo and you get a basic card that you can show to make it easier to copy down the info. Half the time you'll be giving the number over a phone.
Hmm yeees, just what I need (Score:4, Insightful)
Feeding the Google beast with more of my private and personal data for the sake of a minor convenience.
However uses this isn't right in the head.
And the bad news is (Score:2)
The unannounced part was that your wallet will need a password: a Klingon password of 48 letters.
Just stop (Score:2)
No just no. Keep your IDs and personal information offline.