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August 24th, 2017 
Awake Goy MorphoTrust (MT) is trying to convince motorists that mobile biometric driver’s licenses (MDL) are a good thing. Two years ago MT convinced the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) to pilot their mobile driver’s license program.
MT wants you to download an image of your driver’s license to your smartphone and use that instead of a physical license. A KTVQ video revealed how the MT app uses facial recognition to verify an individual’s identity.
Using a mobile biomteric driver’s license poses numerous privacy concerns.
MT and the DOT claim motorists can hit a button that will allow the police to only see your license information. But what if you forget to hit the button, would the police officer have access to all your personal information?
The reasons to never use MDL’s are too numerous to mention here, but an article in USA Today does a good job of addressing some of the privacy concerns.
It appears the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an organization with closely affiliated with DHS, will stop at nothing to convince the public to switch to MDL’s. (Click here to read more.)
In Iowa, MT and DHS have been using one hundred DOT employees to convince the public to accept MDL’s.
Two days ago MorphoTrust claimed a new study, which they conducted, shows a majority of Americans want MDL’s.
Interestingly, the study is not available to the public.
Below is a list of the only findings MorphoTrust published:
- 80% of respondents are interested in a mobile driver’s license app
- 70% of respondents are interested in using their mobile phone to renew their driver’s license
- 64% of Millennials express the highest concept acceptance and would recommend it to a friend
When a poll asks people if they would be interested in a driver’s license app. of course the majority of people will say yes.
But try rephrasing the question by asking if they would be ok with giving a police officer their phones and I’ll bet the majority of people would say no. Would you hand over your phone unlocked to a stranger and have them get in their car while you wait for them to give you the phone back? Can you be sure they will only make a phone call and not scroll through your personal information?
When a company that manufactures 80% of the country’s driver’s licenses and ID’s publishes a study promoting MDL’s we should all be concerned.
I sent MT an email requesting a full copy of their study and will update my story if I receive it.
It appears that the Feds will go to great lengths to force MDL’s on the public.
A 2015 article in the State Scoop shows how MT received $1.47 million from DHS, I mean the NIST, to implement electronic ID’s in North Carolina and Georgia. Also in 2015, Senator Jeff Dial authored a bill that would require the Arizona Department of Transportation to create electronic driver’s licenses.
Seven more states, Alabama, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Utah have begun using MT’s ID’s and driver’s licenses.
It appears that DHS is working with MT to fingerprint and facially recognize everyone in the U.S. (For more information about MT’s long term goals click here & here.)
MT is also profiting from TSA’s PreCheck as MT claims more than two million American’s have signed up to use their program.
MT also offers transportation worker ‘threat assessments’.
As I mentioned in Tuesday’s story, DHS and the TSA want to install facial biometric body scanners in commuter train stations across the country.
The time to fight for our privacy is now; if we wait any longer it will be too late.
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