Utah is seeing steps moving forward in the Mobile Driver’s License Pilot program. A Mobile Driver’s License (or mDL) is a highly secure, official version of a person’s driver’s license or state-issued ID card on an individual’s phone. The app allows individuals to select the needed personal information in situations like ordering drinks, at the airport, or at a car rental with a phone and only the needed information. Once the information to share is selected the app creates a QR code that then can be shared by tapping the phone to a NFC reader. Utah is the first state in the U.S. to pilot this and in an announcement from the Utah Department of Public Safety Driver’s License Division, Utah Community Credit Union will be the state’s first financial institution equipped to accept mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) as a legal form of identification for all banking transactions. The pilot program will initially include 100 select Utah residents and will then expand to 10,000 participants including the Uintah Basin later this year.
Utah Department of Public Safety
