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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.

 

Maryland MLB stadium leads off with mDL age verification for alcohol sales

Major League Baseball fans attending games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards can now use their Maryland mobile driver’s licenses…

 

New Zealand plots course for centralized digital government modeled on NSW

New Zealand continues to digitize its government, with a reshuffling of how the public sector undertakes digital investment and procurement,…

 

Digital versions of Oman’s national ID, driver’s license get legal recognition

The digital versions of the national ID card and driver’s license issued by the Omani government now have equal legal…

 

Mobile drivers licenses, digital ID find support in US, Canada

Drivers in the U.S. and Canada are ready for mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs). A new survey from Thales shows “a…

 

Stakeholders urge America to consider digital identities critical infrastructure

America needs a “federal digital identity strategy” that recognizes credentials people can use online as “critical infrastructure, Persona Director of…

 

New verifier tool for mDLs, digital credentials launches from GET Group

GET Group has launched its new Universal Verifier Solution for mobile drivers licenses (mDLs). A post from the company says…

 

Biggest network of mDL verification devices in US proves scalability, diversity

Biometric authentication and verification systems provider TokenWorks Inc. and mobile driver’s license verification software vendor Oneproof have announced the successful…

 

Nein telefon heim: Germany aims to quell fears about server retrieval in EUDI wallet

The “phone home” debate over digital identity systems that could use server retrieval continues, as Germany’s government faces questions about…

 

Türkiye to prosecute dozens after forgery scandal involving stolen digital signatures

Trial will begin this week for suspects of a scandal in Türkiye that saw the production of hundreds of fake…

 

Vietnam’s VNeID digitizes 20M driving licenses, 26M health cards

Vietnam is marking the successful development and implementation of the National Population Database, which serves as the central information system…

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