Or because their state barely managed to rolled it out at all and since they already have a passport card it makes no huge difference now. Not arguing just annoyed at my state.
I understand it's cool to be cynical on HN but: this is a step in the direction for a future world where a lot of countries will let you in with a digital passport.
Now whether you think that's a good thing or not, that's a different story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport_card
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-pa...
You need it in countries with haphazard kidnappings - like the US.
Just carry a bit of inert - as inert as possible - plastic instead
Which, I oddly had respect for.
An iPhone can read the RFID but you have to know that it is NOT where the icon is, but actually on the backside of the hard thick page (or something, I forget).
As someone who has a passport card, I can confirm it definitely has an RFID chip in it. Ironically they come in a protective sleeve.
elaborate on that more
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/chris-krebs-cbp-glob...
> When you present your license or ID in person, after you authenticate using Face ID or Touch ID, your ID information is presented digitally through encrypted communication between your iPhone or Apple Watch and the identity reader, so you don’t need to unlock, show, or hand over your device. If your device is locked when you present your ID, it stays locked after you present your ID.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/118260
This is also a fundamentally naive criticism because we’re at a point where anyone worried about their unlocked device knows that the alternative ranges from being detained for a few hours and missing their flight, to spending a week or two sleeping on a concrete floor in an overcrowded detention center, to being shipped off to a lawless concentration camp in El Salvador. Keeping your phone locked or powered off is no substitute for returning to a constitutional democracy.
https://www.afar.com/magazine/no-need-to-show-tsa-your-board...
That being said every airport I've flown through for the last 2-ish years has had digital IDs or ID scanners so at smaller, or laggard, airports they may still be doing that.
