International. During the eID Conference, which was held September 28-29 in Washington D.C., HID Global, a global leader in secure identification solutions, discussed the fundamental concerns about the identification program related to enabling mobile driver's licenses on citizens' smartphones.
The company highlighted important principles that should guide the policy and development discussion, so that these mobile driver's licenses, as well as other mobile government IDs, meet the requirements and needs of users, issuing bodies, law enforcement and other stakeholders who rely on secure IDs for a wide range of purposes.
"Smartphones have given consumers the ability to take a large number of actions, from safely entering their offices and hotel rooms, making retail purchases and presenting an airline boarding pass, to presenting tickets for events and entering their homes," said Rob Haslam. Vice President of the Government ID division of HID Global. "For people, the smartphone is becoming a general-purpose tool and many of them want to have the option to use their smartphone, instead of carrying a physical driver's license or ID card, even though the physical document is still stored at home."
HID Global's cutting-edge Seos® credential management technology, on which the design of your mobile driver's license concept is based, is the technology that is present in secure identification solutions. It is also a new way of conceiving the experiences of end users and their mobile devices. Thanks to this technology, numerous organizations, universities and hotel chains have the possibility to securely enable IDs on phones and other smart devices to enter offices, hotel rooms, data and cloud applications, in addition to an increasingly wide range of applications that will soon include mobile driver's licenses and government IDs.
HID Global leveraged its strong track record in the mobile ID industry to share with eID attendees the principles that it believes are critical to making the most of the convenience and power offered by mobile devices in order to deliver secure and properly authenticated digital IDs to citizens, as a novel and more convenient way to issue, carry and present driver's licenses as well as other government credentials.
