Florida House passes bill to relaunch mDL program
A package of transportation laws have been approved by Florida’s House of Representatives, setting up the potential return of mobile…
mDL (mobile driver’s license)
Mobile driver’s licenses, alternatively referred to as digital driver’s licenses and known by the short forms mDL and DDL, are increasingly popular credentials for driving privileges and identity verification. Issued by a department of motor vehicles or similar government authority and stored in a digital wallet on a smartphone, these credentials are being adopted or considered as digital IDs for a wide range of applications including age verification.
Wisecube debuts hybrid scanner that verifies physical IDs and mDLs
Wisecube has launched a desktop ID scanner that combines physical document authentication with mobile driver’s licence (mDL) verification. Oneproof is…
Idemia PS deal brings growing number of US mDLs to Trinsic’s digital identity network
Trinsic has completed a major addition to its digital Identity Acceptance Network, bringing Idemia Public Security and the mobile driver’s…
Dominican Republic ISO-aligned mDL to be publicly available March 2
Mobile driver’s licenses for drivers in the Dominican Republic will soon be available, in what Dominican Today calls a major…
Texas on the sidelines as digital driver’s licenses expand nationwide
Texas is emerging as one of the major holdouts in the national shift toward digital identification even as Apple expands…
West Virginia records 30K Mobile ID registrations since Oct 2024 launch
Mobile driver’s licenses are making small gains in the U.S., as states roll out their offerings and see the first…
South Africa digital ID and mDL to launch this year, president promises
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has given his word that the country’s national digital ID system will be rolled…
UK digital ID sector warns of legal action if mDL limited to GOV.UK Wallet
A spat is brewing in the UK between private sector digital identity providers and a government they fear is intent…
New bipartisan bill in US Congress aims to crack down on digital identity theft, fraud
Bipartisan legislation newly introduced in U.S. Congress aims to “strengthen America’s digital identity infrastructure and protect individuals, businesses, and government…
NIST develops playbook for online use cases of digital credentials in financial services
In conversations about the accuracy of biometric technologies, one acronym is almost certain to come up. Testing and benchmarking by…
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