The electronic license is being developed by the DOT in cooperation with IDEMIA. a private vendor that specializes in providing secure and easily authenticated identification credentials. Mark Lowe, director of the Iowa Department of Transportation, said all those questions and more should be addressed by mid-2019 when Iowa's digital driver's licenses should become available to the state's nearly 2.3 million licensed drivers. "We don't have a firm position on this topic because we have yet to be presented with a sufficient amount of detail to analyze the proposal in light of the specific technology intended," said Mark Stringer, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa. In addition, bars, restaurants and retail stores haven't beentold how they will check the ages of customers who want to buy alcoholic beverages or tobacco products.Ĭivil libertarians are concerned that the use of a digital driver's license could implicate privacy rights, including right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures of one's phone and its contents during traffic stops. New digital driver's licenses for smartphones are expected to become available to Iowans next year, but lots of questions remain about how they will work.įor starters, law enforcement agencies still don't know exactly how they will use technology to read the mobile licenses when they ask for your identification. Watch Video: Iowa's transportation system: Moving people and commerce
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