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Privacy Experts Rip TSA Plan to Rapidly Expand Digital Driver’s License System

The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights and privacy groups oppose a Transportation Security Administration proposal they say would rapidly expand the use of digital driver’s licenses in the U.S. before privacy safeguards are in place.

Critics of a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) proposal to waive certain federal law requirements for digital driver’s licenses say the TSA’s plan would rapidly expand the use of digital licenses in the U.S. before appropriate privacy safeguards are in place.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and three other leading civil rights and privacy organizations recently filed legal comments objecting to the proposal. Summarizing the groups’ concerns, Jay Stanley — an ACLU senior policy analyst — said:

“The TSA is threatening to prematurely lock in a harmful digital identity system that allows ID card issuers to track where people show their ID, fails to include a number of important privacy protections, and fails to ensure that the system is free from the control of particular private corporations.”

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