No Phone Home campaign waves red flag over server retrieval for digital ID

Anonymous identity verification isn’t actually anonymous if it has to “phone home” to the original issuer to verify a submitted credential. So says a group of industry stakeholders and privacy advocates who have signed a public statement opposing such capabilities in digital identity systems, and mobile driver’s licenses (mDL) in particular.

In a conversation to make E.T. weep, Biometric Update’s editor-in-chief Chris Burt speaks with Timothy Ruff of Digital Trust Venture Partners (the author of a fiery blog on No Phone Home), Anonyme Labs Chief Architect Steve McCown (whose review of the ISO/IEC 18013-5 spec discovered the server retrieval loophole) and Utah Privacy Officer Chris Bramwell about why they see phoning home as a major surveillance risk.

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Biometric Update Podcast  |  data privacy  |  digital ID  |  digital trust  |  ISO 18013  |  mDL (mobile driver's license)  |  mDL privacy concerns  |  No Phone Home