![]() MDOT opened the test of Gemalto’s digital driver’s license to employees and their families, and more than 400 people enrolled, enabling the state and the company - which is working under a $2 million, two-year grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology on the licenses - to study how the application would work on multiple smartphone makes, models and operating systems. "They don’t see all that personal information - your address - that people are, frankly, probably a little reluctant to have a stranger see.” "They’ll see that you’re over 18 for tobacco purchases, that you’re over 21 for alcohol purchases, but they don’t see your exact date of birth, they don’t see your driver’s license number," Nizer said. With a digital driver’s license, only age verification will display if that's what the license is being used for. “On your physical license, you’re giving pretty much all of your major data to the individual who receives that license when you hand it over at a bar, a liquor store - anyplace you go,” said Chrissy Nizer, administrator of MDOT’s Motor Vehicle Administration. Officials at the Maryland Department of Transportation learned two things since opting into a pilot test of digital driver’s licenses: The licenses are more secure than plastic cards, and people really like the idea. ![]()
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