Electronically encoded driver’s license in your future
14 January, 2002
category: Biometrics, Education
WASHINGTON – The government is taking first steps with the states to develop drivers’ licenses that can electronically store information such as fingerprints for the 184 million Americans who carry the cards.
Privacy experts fear the effort may lead to de facto national identification cards that would allow authorities to track citizens electronically, circumventing the intense debate over federal ID cards.