USA – Privacy Experts Rip TSA Plan to Rapidly Expand Digital Driver’s License System
Do American citizens even KNOW this is happening as 2023 winds down??
The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights and privacy groups oppose a Transportation Security Administration proposal they say would rapidly expand the use of digital driver’s licenses in the U.S. before privacy safeguards are in place.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and three other leading civil rights and privacy organizations recently filed legal comments objecting to the proposal. Summarizing the groups’ concerns, Jay Stanley — an ACLU senior policy analyst — said:
“The TSA is threatening to prematurely lock in a harmful digital identity system that allows ID card issuers to track where people show their ID, fails to include a number of important privacy protections, and fails to ensure that the system is free from the control of particular private corporations.”
The proposed digital driver’s licenses, commonly called “mobile driver’s licenses” or “mDLs,” would be accepted by federal agencies for official purposes.
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