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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.

 

Australian pols giddy with state and federal integration over digital ID

Australia’s efforts to get digital IDs into people’s hands shows, even winning over snarky journalists with the progress. Almost 80…

 

US state representative hints at another run at digital IDs

A party caucus chair in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania has signaled to the state’s lower house members that he…

 

Thales aces mDL, digital identity interoperability test to ISO standard in Australia

Thales is claiming success in an interoperability test for mobile driver’s licenses and digital identities based on the ISO standard….

 

California proposed budget sustains digital ID project funding

Modernization of key identity systems in the U.S. state of California is a small but unusually sunny part of the…

 

Iowa’s mDL delayed again; Arizona updating physical ID

New security is being added to regional U.S. government IDs, both digital and physical. Leaders of a U.S. state working…

 

Protect kids or avoid censorship — ID verification debate warms in US

Moralizing aside, stated concerns in the United States about the innocence of childhood are going to be good business for…

 

Mississippi mDLs from Idemia I&S go live with full legal status

Mississippi Mobile ID is now available in partnership with Idemia I&S to give state residents the option to carry a…

 

South Korea’s digital identity blockchain prepares to add new credentials, go international

South Korea’s blockchain-based national mobile digital identity system is not due to be fully operational until 2024, but it is…

 

Thales Digital ID Wallet certified to ISO mobile driver’s license standard by UL

Thales has been certified for meeting the ISO/IEC secure mobile driver’s licenses standard by UL Solutions as it continues expanding…

 

Next digital ID in US: Maryland tests Android app

Google’s first public step into digital U.S. state IDs will fall in Maryland, which was implied by the company in…

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