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NEW YORK 鈥� Digital driver鈥檚 licenses raise a number of privacy and equity concerns and should be adopted only if they incorporate available privacy-protecting technologies and steps are taken to ensure that they are not made mandatory and do not lead to a society of ubiquitous ID checks, according to a new report by the 老澳门开奖结果 published today. The report, 鈥淚dentity Crisis: What Digital Driver鈥檚 Licenses Could Mean for Privacy, Equity, and the Future of American Life,鈥� analyzes current efforts to push digital driver鈥檚 licenses and outlines the civil liberties that are implicated by the technology.

鈥淎 move from plastic to digital IDs is not a simple switch 鈥� it has big implications for American life.鈥� said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. 鈥淚f not done just right, digital driver鈥檚 licenses could be disastrous for privacy, increase inequity, and lead to pervasive ID checks in American life, including on the internet. Asking people to identify themselves is an exercise in power. We need to proceed very carefully here.鈥�

The new report highlights seven privacy concerns with the proliferation of digital driver鈥檚 licenses:

1. Law enforcement could use digital driver鈥檚 license verification as a pretext to search people鈥檚 devices;
2. Records of digital ID checks could be held in a centralized database and allow for tracking of our everyday activities;
3. The DMV or other issuing agency could instantly and remotely revoke digital driver鈥檚 licenses, exacerbating existing abusive practices of driver鈥檚 license suspensions;
4. Digital driver鈥檚 licenses could be used to amass data about ID holders by private companies without knowledge or consent;
5. Digital driver鈥檚 licenses could limit personal control over the data that ID holders release;
6. Hackers could exploit the adoption of digital driver鈥檚 licenses; and
7. Digital ID holders could be forced to install government software on their phones.

鈥淚dentity Crisis鈥� emphasizes that digital driver鈥檚 licenses could bring about other harmful consequences over time. They may lead to a vast increase in unjustified demands for identity. They could expand to contain more and more information, including medical records, credit scores, or outstanding fines or fees. And they could become mandatory, exacerbating existing inequities in communities that do not have access to smartphones and further entrenching the digital divide.

The report also provides a number of recommendations for policymakers, DMVs, and technology companies looking to develop and adopt digital driver鈥檚 license proposals. These recommendations include a statutory bar on law enforcement access to devices, as well as 鈥渧oluntary鈥� requests for accessing a device鈥檚 contents, as part of digital driver鈥檚 license checks; no collection of data by issuers or those verifying digital IDs; user control over what data is released from their digital documents; a standardized provisioning process and transparent open source code for the software behind digital IDs; limiting ID checks to legitimate purposes; and creating a 鈥渞ight to paper鈥� for anyone who doesn鈥檛 want or cannot access digital driver鈥檚 licenses.

The full report is here.