Loyalty ID

Full Title or Meme

Many sales organizations have created plans to reward loyal customer with savings or other benefits accessible through continued used of their products.

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.

Related IDs

• Self-issued Identifiers were first proposed commercially in the Microsoft Info Card.
• State Mandated Identification tries to tie all of the various identities that they maintain into a single collection of credentials under a single ID.

Use Cases

Washington State

This is a list of web sites that can be accessed from outside the state network and require ID credentials. There my be other sites that allow online access without credentials that later ask for them. In particular the DMV is in that category. Two duplicates were left out irrespective of their reality to avoid questions. More discussion on the use of the Driver's Licenses as the primary sort of the Identifier for residents of the state in the wiki page on MDL Considered Harmful which explains why the DL is not the best starting point.

References

Other Material

• See the wiki page State Issued Identifier for some description of the Identifiers that a commonly issued.
• See the wiki page on Government