Is there any way to determine if your information was leaked? The driver's license picture should qualify as biometric information under some states' laws [2].
[2] https://www.huschblackwell.com/2023-state-biometric-privacy-...
Is there any way to determine if your information was leaked? The driver's license picture should qualify as biometric information under some states' laws [2].
[2] https://www.huschblackwell.com/2023-state-biometric-privacy-...
> "Personal information" means an individual's first name or first initial and last name in combination with any one or more of the following data elements...
> 2. Driver's license number or California Identification Card number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Senate_Bill_1386_(2...
Imagine if, until relatively recently, a social security number was a truncated MD5 hash of your name and birthday. That's the flavor of the problem here.
Perhaps it's making the same mistake as SSNs in that people use public or easily generated information to verify identity in the first place.
The feds made sure our DL data wasn't protected.
ref: https://cyberplayground.org/2011/12/07/drivers-privacy-prote...
Florida gets hundreds of millions of dollars each year selling it's residents DL data.
ref: https://www.wftv.com/news/local/can-florida-legally-sell-you...