StateScoop: Privacy advocates are worried about mobile driver’s licenses

The campaign, titled No Phone Home, is backed by a statement that calls for identity systems like mobile driver’s licenses to adopt a technological standard that is incapable of tracking or surveilling users. “Identity systems that phone home facilitate centralized tracking and control, privacy invasions, and other potential abuses,” the statement warns. “If this capability exists within a digital identity system, even inactively, it will eventually be used.” 

The statement is signed by privacy and digital rights groups like the ACLU, EFF, Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Democracy and Technology. It’s also signed by more niche industry groups like the Trust Over IP Foundation and the Decentralized AI Society. Brave Software, which makes the open-source Brave web browser, “the browser that puts you first,” has attached its name. 

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