Is it true that all drivers licences will have a computer chip embedded inside 2008 issue. In USA?

Answer 1

dont know about state driver licenses but passports will / do

By Susan Llewelyn Leach | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor



The US passport is about to go electronic, with a tiny microchip embedded in its cover. Along with digitized pictures, holograms, security ink, and "ghost" photos - all security features added since 2002 - the chip is the latest outpost in the battle to outwit tamperers. But it's also one that worries privacy advocates.

The RFID (radio frequency identification) chip in each passport will contain the same personal data as now appear on the inside pages - name, date of birth, place of birth, issuing office - and a digitized version of the photo. But the 64K chip will be read remotely. And there's the rub.

The scenario, privacy advocates say, could be as simple as you standing in line with your passport as someone walks by innocuously carrying a briefcase. Inside that case, a microchip reader could be skimming data from your passport to be used for identity theft. Or maybe authorities or terrorists want to see who's gathered in a crowd and surreptitiously survey your ID and track you. Suddenly, "The Matrix" looks less futuristic.

The State Department maintains that such scenarios are outright fiction.

"A person can't be tracked," says Kelly Shannon, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department. "It's not as if the information is going to broadcast and anyone with a receiver can be picking up that signal. There isn't a signal."

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Answer 2

Never heard of that. Currently I doubt it. The DL are state wide and it need the cooperation of ALL states for that to work. Currently USA gov cannot even get the states to agree on just ONE DL format.

But that doesn't mean that it won't happen. We just need couple of more terrorist scares to makes sheeps out of Americans.
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As to what the poster above said, they have the technology for RFID to only release information to authorized scanners. But like anything in this world the problem is to keep authorized scanners from being stolen and abused.

Answer 3

I think that's only passports for now. I have not heard anything about DLs regarding that.

Answer 4

No.
My license won't be replaced until it expires in 2011.

Answer 5

CALL YOUR LOCAL DMV OFFICE, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO ANSWER ANY AND ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL BE GETTING THE CORRECT ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION.