Google Wallet tests age verification without sharing personal data

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Google is testing an Updates section in the Google Wallet app.

This section could give you a monthly summary of any changes made to your passes, either already saved or imported from Gmail.

With this, Google is also testing an age verification tool that lets users share their age without revealing personal information or sharing IDs.

Digital payments make our lives a whole lot easier, especially saving us the ordeal of keeping track of the exact loose change. But if there’s one aspect that adds friction to digital spending, it’s keeping on top of your expenses, especially when you use multiple payment methods. To fix this to an extent, Apple recently added a lightweight expense tracker within the Apple Wallet app. While Google doesn’t seem anywhere close to adding it to its Wallet app, we might see another feature that tracks your saved passes and membership IDs.

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