Image Recognition
The Utah Department of Public Safety’s Driver License Division (DLD) is now enabling state residents to set up their own mobile driver’s license at home, marking what is essentially the official, broad launch of the digital ID system after a smaller-scale rollout began last year. In August, America First Credit Union announced that it had partnered with the DLD to start signing people up for the mobile driver’s license in person at special registration events. That functionality is now in place, with the DLD explaining that its system uses facial recognition backed by liveness detection match an app user to the photo on their physical driver’s license. What’s more, the DLD says that the new digital driver’s license can already be used as official ID at the Salt Lake City International Airport, thanks to a collaboration with TSA PreCheck. Users can confirm their mobile driver’s license at airport security through a QR code scan, or simply by tapping their device at specialized readers, thanks to NFC technology.