Privacy Advocates Raise Concerns with New Mobile Driver’s Licenses

In 2021, the Department of Homeland Security started a process of adopting regulations for mobile driver’s licenses. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has since begun allowing mobile driver’s licenses as identification at airports, and several states jumped on the bandwagon, offering mobile driver’s licenses through state-sponsored apps or via Apple and Google Wallet. Now, the TSA has proposed new regulations that would waive REAL ID requirements for state-issued mobile driver’s licenses, but privacy advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warn this move may put consumers’ personal information at risk.

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