JUST A FORM OF digital ID. Texas is getting a mobile driver’s license (mDL), as the tech continues to pick up steam across the U.S. and road signs point to large-scale mDL adoption ahead. The lone star state’s HB 3426 says the department of public safety “shall issue a digital version of a driver’s license, a commercial driver’s license, and a personal identification certificate.” Furthermore, “the department may adopt rules necessary to administer this.” https://www.biometricupdate.com/202503/texas-is-latest-u-s-state-to-launch-mobile-drivers-license-as-mdl-momentum-builds

Biometric technology in automobiles is becoming steadily more common as research and development have opened new possibilities. In 2018, Hyundai Motor Company became the first automaker to feature a biometric scanner through the Santa Fe model. The SUV allowed drivers to use their fingerprints to open the vehicle and start the ignition. Since then, Hyundai and Genesis have made biometrics integral to their production. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202502/biometrics-rolling-towards-relevance-for-automakers-and-drivers

The US Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the state of New York and key officials over the state's 2019 "Green Light" law, which has allowed thousands of illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, while blocking federal immigration and border enforcement agencies from accessing the state's motor vehicle database. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-stops-today-doj-sues-new-york-governor-hocul-and-ny-ag-letitia-james-over-licenses

Whether it’s a fake credit history, a phony license or a test driver with a stolen identity who makes tracks with a vehicle, auto dealerships deal with a host of new fraud threats that can lead to heavy losses. Digital identity verification presents itself as a solution across the dashboard, as providers expand their IDV product lines to meet new verification and authentication needs in the automotive industry. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202501/car-dealerships-rev-up-digital-id-verification-to-counter-rise-in-identity-fraud

The deadline for U.S. federal agencies to enforce REAL ID specifications for identity credentials has been pushed back by two more years to May 5, 2027 by the TSA. The previous deadline to meet the security standard for ID documents did not give states sufficient time to implement the changes, coming a mere 20 years after the passage of the legislation mandating the change. An eleventh-hour executive order by U.S. President Biden presents the adoption of digital ID, in the form of mobile driver’s licenses, as a national cybersecurity imperative. The EO stipulates security requirements for software supply chains and policy changes to enable better threat detection and more stringent access control measures. Federal agencies are instructed to consider grants to support mDL rollouts by states. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202501/emerging-biometrics-markets-draw-a-crowd

The Biden administration is expected to issue an executive order instructing U.S. federal agencies to work towards adopting mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) and other forms of digital identity. Nextgov/FCW has seen a draft of the executive order, and notes expectations that it will be signed by President Biden this week. Deputy National Security Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger said publicly that an executive action on cybersecurity has been in the works for months. The draft order instructs the Social Security Administration to consider offering attribute validation services, providing a yes or no response to queries for identity verification to government systems and benefits programs. Such services could replace those offered by data brokers and credit bureaus. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202501/us-executive-order-on-mobile-drivers-licenses-expected-this-week

"The COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be a powerful driver of change. It is spurring biodigital innovations such as nearly real-time biosurveillance of virus spread and mutations; Biodigital convergence, the merging of biological systems and digital technologies Building on our first report, ..., the potential impact of biodigital convergence on sectors such as health, food and agriculture, the environment, manufacturing, and security. " Biodigital Today and Tomorrow 2022-05-31 https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2022/05/31/biodigital-today-and-tomorrow/

Port authorities in Windsor, Ontario say they fear they may have to deal with an increase in illegal immigrants attempting to enter into Canada via the Detroit River following US president-elect Donald Trump. Trump’s administration has pledged to deport people residing illegally south of the border en masse once he takes office in January. “I think we’ll be seeing much more desperate people who are trying to get out of the United States and get to Canada and make claims,” Peter Berry of the Windsor Port Authority told CBC News. https://tnc.news/2024/11/25/windsor-port-illegal-crossings-detroit-river/

The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions, CBC News has learned. The new passport was discovered in June 2023 by RCMP investigators executing a search warrant at the Montreal home of Thesingarasan Rasiah during a probe targeting an international human smuggling network that Rasiah allegedly headed, according to court records obtained by CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/passport-smuggler-river-1.7386854

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