State Mandated Identification

Full Title or Meme

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. Many sovereign states have been moving in the direction of a single user authentication process for all departments and agencies of the state.

Problems

• Even the landline phone was used for tracking as soon as it became ubiquitous. FBI wiretaps have been know to capture many types of criminal behavior.
• Smartphones are both incredibly complex and designed specifically to understand where they are as well as how they are being used.

Alternatives

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