Digital driver's licenses may use Harry Potter-style moving photos & selfies for security
Digital driver's licenses may use Harry Potter-style moving photos & selfies for security
2015-03-13
we may soon have one less reason to open
our wallets
morpho trust a biometric company has
developed digital driver's licenses or
DD LS drivers who want to DD l would
download a smartphone app you could
verify yourself one of several ways
either using a pin or possibly using a a
selfie a picture that you would take of
yourself that would be compared to the
picture that they've taken of you and is
on file in your driver's license record
DTLS will have a slew of security
features one seems to come straight from
a book about a certain boy wizard the
Harry Potter feature is just the the
individuals head rotates back and forth
it indicates first of all that it's got
a live connection okay and that it's a
it's a valid D deal Delaware in Iowa are
among the states interested in adopting
DDS Iowa will begin a pilot test this
summer they want to make sure that they
can push updates or changes out to that
driver's license in real time one of the
great advantages of the DDL is that it's
not just a dead piece of plastic it will
have a live link back to the DMV's
system of record that could mean fewer
trips to the DMV in Sacramento I'm Jimmy
DAWs cnet.com for CBS News
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