State Mandated Identification

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Sovereign states have been identifying their residents as long as history has been kept. Only recently have efforts to provide identification and Privacy together been a specific concern.

Context

This paper is focused on two trends:

1. The move from card based driver's licenses to smartphone based Mobile Driver's Licenses.
2. The

Alternative

• Self-issued Identifiers were first proposed commercially in the Microsoft
• Self-issued Identifier