New Driver’s License and Identification Card Design for Minnesota
Minnesota residents are getting a new design to their Driver’s License and Identification Card The Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS) division of the The Minnesota Department of Public Safety will begin issuing the redesigned driver’s license and ID cards on August 6, 2018. Among the many new design features is that people under 21 years of age…
Read MoreNew Jersey Drivers License Swipe Law
New Jersey passed the Personal Information and Privacy Protection Act (S-1913) on July 21, 2017.New Jersey’s law generally aligns with about a third of other states that have such laws, limiting the purposes and type of information a retailer may scan and retain from identification cards and goes further in specifying data storage requirements and requiring notification…
Read MoreID Scanner Privacy Laws in Canada
Canada has tougher privacy laws than the US and ID Scanners are legal if used in the following manner. The Canadian federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act says “The identified purposes should be specified at or before the time of collection to the individual from whom the personal information is collected…orally or in…
Read MoreREAL ID Compliant Driver’s License Coming to California January 22, 2018
Following a number of states already issuing REAL ID compliant driver’s licenses and state ID cards, California is set to roll out its new driver’s license design on January 22, 2018. Current license-holders will be given the option when renewing to elect a standard or REAL ID compliant license, enabling use in airport security and…
Read MoreSee the New, More Secure Canadian Driver’s Licenses and ID Cards
Following the increased security measures numerous USA states have been implementing for their residents’ driver’s licenses and ID cards, the four Atlantic Canadian provinces are redesigning their driver’s licenses and ID cards to better protect their citizens from identity theft, fraud, and forgery. Starting in November, the new ID cards and driver’s licenses, to be…
Read MoreREAL ID Compliance In Effect for Michigan’s Driver’s License Design
To accommodate the REAL ID requirements put into effect October 1, 2020, Michigan residents are being issued new, REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses and state IDs. The new Michigan driver’s license and state ID cards feature a star in the upper corner, easily identifying them as REAL ID compliant: Current license holders are not required to…
Read MoreIDWedgeKB USB Serial Connection with Linux Ubunto Raspberry Pi
How to connection IDWedgeKB using USB Serial CDC driver to Linux Operating system IDWedgeKB is a drivers license scanner with embedded drivers license parsing that interfaces to a computer as a USB Keyboard or USB Serial port. This post details how to connect from Linux to the IDWedgeKB when it’s setup as a serial device…
Read MoreNew Hampshire Privacy Law
New Hampshire law seems to allow Pawnbrokers to use ID Scanners, but all others need authorization from the department of motor vehicles. See section X below. If anyone is aware of another regulation which grants authorization to those selling age sensitive products, please coment below. Also seems if one can prove due…
Read MoreArizona Affirmative Defense
ID Scanner Records Identification Information 4-241 A.R.S. §4-241: Selling or giving liquor to underage person: illegally obtaining liquor by underage person: violation: classification: definitions If a licensee, an employee of the licensee or any other person questions or has reason to question that the person ordering, purchasing, attempting to purchase or otherwise procuring or attempting…
Read MoreUtah ID Scanner Law
Utah Mandates and Regulates use of ID Scanners in Clubs In March of 2010, Utah was the first state to mandate the use of ID Scanners. Utah Club Liquor License Summary The DABC does not provide a list of approved scanners. ID scanners (electronic age verification devices) are available from multiple manufacturers and vendors. An…
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