On June 28, 2012, Hawaii passed a law limiting access to your driver’s license barcode. for everyday purchases – building massive databases of barcode information with every transaction. Yet increasingly, private businesses are requiring you to show I.D.
YOU SHOULD BE. Invasion of Privacy. Identity theft. Abuse of personal information.Ī Hawaii driver’s license or state identification card barcode contains a lot of digitized personal information including your name, address, date of birth, hair color, eye color, height, weight, gender, license expiration date, organ donor status, driver’s license number, fingerprint, medical information, and driver classification code – personal information that you shouldn’t have to share with the rest of the world. Did a business just “swipe” your driver’s license or State ID? Concerned about what’s going to happen to the personal information that was just scanned from your driver’s license barcode?
