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Clients, customers, and projects where we have deciphered identity to solve problems
Experience & Authorship
Experience & Authorship
Resources for Mobile & Digital ID
mDL Connection Knowledge Center and Whitepapers
GET Group North America's resource pages on mDL
Seven Principles of Privacy By Design, by Dr Ann Cavoukian
Identity terminology by R. Clarke
Articles & Posts by Decipher Identity
Congressional Testimony on mDL
Stop "Ripping ID Photos"
Credit Union Times - mDL
Contactless ID post-covid
Privacy and the mDL on IAPP.org
Keesing Journal of ID article
Follow dkelts.id on Medium
Presentations by David Kelts
Congressional Testimony video
Slideshares on Privacy & Identity Proofing, including selfie-mKYC
Privacy Engineering at Scale
Why the USA needs a Trust Framework, with Gluu.org
We've written the foremost explanatory articles on Digital Identity, Mobile Driver's License, and how your business or agency can accept Mobile IDs.
We've written the foremost explanatory articles on Digital Identity, Mobile Driver's License, and how your business or agency can accept Mobile IDs.
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Mobile Driver's License (mDL), the beginnings and a decade in the making...
In 2013, a brilliant mobile team led by Dan Poder and Rich Huber at MorphoTrust (now IDEMIA) rendered a driver's license on a phone for the State of Iowa. It quickly became apparent that "fakes" were too easy to create on computers if you showed your mDL (a Flash Pass). But the idea caught on. Over the next 5-years, a collaborative group of engineers, architects, and product people from dozens of companies spent years solving for trustworthiness and writing ISO/IEC 18013-5. Then, once the first pilot implementations appeared, Apple, Google, Samsung, and the wallet vendors joined, International Governments ratified the privacy aspects of mDL so that they could protect their citizens, and Mobile Driver's Licenses became official in 2021. The market is building and now needs Relying Parties (businesses and agencies that accept mDL) for a privacy-protecting, fraud-reducing ecosystem.
Illuminate your path into Digital Identity
David's impact comes from his breadth and depth of knowledge, that he knows nearly every player in the space and what they intend to do, and he has an understanding of how to apply standards. When people think mDL, they call David Kelts.
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