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Friday, 28 July 2023

Say goodbye to your privacy: Use of digital IDs in American states is spreading rapidly

 More and more states in the U.S. are implementing digital ID systems, raising more concerns that these digital systems could turn into backdoors for government surveillance and erode personal privacy.

At least eight states already have state-sponsored apps where people can store their digital IDs. These include the Mobile ID app in Arizona, Delaware, Mississippi and Oklahoma and the myColorado app, which provides proof of identification, age and address anywhere in Colorado.

In Louisiana, the LA Wallet serves as the state-sponsored app for storing digital driver's licenses and is considered legal for driving purposes and accepted by state law enforcement in lieu of a physical driver's license.

In Maryland, the Maryland Mobile ID app is a "voluntary, secure, digitized version" of the state-issued driver's license. Utah also has a state-sponsored digital driver's license app known as Get Mobile...<<<Read More>>>...