Alphabet the company that bans people for opaque reasons with no recourse, good idea. Maybe tech should not be in charge of digital identification

The governments like it that way. They want banks and tech companies to be intermediaries that are more difficult to hold accountable, because they can just say “we didn’t feel like doing business with this person”.

They certainly could in theory, but it's hard to think of any company I'd trust to do it. These two certainly aren't on the list.

They don’t need you to trust them, just the governments and majority of the market.

I don’t get it. That link refers to Apple letting you put your passport and drivers license info in the wallet on your phone.

Apple’s Wallet app presents this feature as being for “age and identity verification in apps, online and in person”.