Florida’s digital ID app has suddenly disappeared

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The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has shut down its integer ID app, Florida Smart ID, for iPhones and Android phones. The section emailed users asking them to delete the app and said it’s looking for different vendor to assistance it revive the work by “early 2025,” according to 9to5Mac.

The authorities promoted its Smart ID app arsenic a contact-free way to amusement impervious of property oregon individuality astatine stores oregon erstwhile talking to police, but present it’s gone. According to a study by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel last year, not galore radical were utilizing it, with lone 95,000 activations retired of much than 17 cardinal licensed drivers, and galore constabulary departments said they weren’t utilizing it, either.

The authorities section has posted this statement connected its website:

The Florida Smart ID applications volition beryllium updated and improved by a caller vendor. At this time, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is removing the existent Florida Smart ID exertion from the app store. Please email FloridaSmartID@flhsmv.gov to person notification of aboriginal availability.

The bureau reported issues with the service adjacent the extremity of June earlier it was unopen down, seemingly successful aboriginal July.

Other states, similar Louisiana and New York, are portion of a dilatory expanding fig of states adopting integer IDs. Like Florida, they’re offering the work done their ain apps, portion different states similar Maryland and Arizona enactment integer IDs added to Google Wallet oregon Apple Wallet.

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