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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I understood your post to say that my information would be made visible to someone else or that I would lose access to it forever. Anything is possible but neither is likely and is both are more easily accomplished by other means.
If my car is stolen I'm much less worried about the valuables than I am about my car but if my concern is my valuables then I'm not worried about a key fob I'm worried about a brick. The thought of someone cloning my key fob and taking my car is way, way down on the list. Sure, it can happen, but the odds are greatly against it.
You don't seem to have understood about the phone as a portal. Much of your data is not on your phone, it is simply accessed through your phone. I don't carry my phone because it has the entirety of Google on it, I carry my phone because I can access Google through it. If someone wants to get your personal information, stealing your phone or hacking it when you are at the pool is a terrible way to go about it. They would be better off hacking a credit card company, bank, health care company, or IRS where the data is actually stored.
If you don't want to carry your phone and you don't want to use a digital ID that doesn't exist yet, no problem, no one is trying to force you to. But don't try to scare others away from it by throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Carrying a phone isn't what makes the phone vulnerable, poor online practices does - and those generally happen in the home, not at the pool.
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The cloud has some of my info, but not other info. My list of passwords is not available on the Cloud. It is only available on the device, encrypted, coded by me, and hidden. However, a lot of information is in the Cloud. Your phone has access to that Cloud. Once it's in there, it's all fair game for whoever accesses it to use however they see fit.
Your plastic ID card, on the other hand, can't access anything at all, currently. You can't use it to open a gate, you can't scan it on a Villages computer to get to your villages.net account. You can't use it to reserve a room at the rec center. In order to do those things, someone ELSE has to scan the card, which gives THEM access to your information and authorizations/permissions. That access is available on THEIR device, not on yours.