Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 1:13 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
In reply to: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS by mattdm
Parent article: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

How dare you presume that I live in a state that is actually progressive enough to have invested in online driver license renewal infrastructure.

How dare you sir.

-jef"no seriously that would be great... feel free to write my governor to actually extend online renew to driver license instead of requiring in person every other renewal"spaleta

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Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 4, 2013 7:18 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (1 responses)

Or adopt the EU model, where your driver license is valid at least until retirement age? That'd require offloading the functionality of identification to a separate document, though, something that US and UK libertarians seem to have an irrational fear about

(as a result of which, too many organizations in the US require driver license and SSN, which arguably is a dangerous invasion of privacy)

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 5, 2013 11:16 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> (as a result of which, too many organizations in the US require driver license and SSN, which arguably is a dangerous invasion of privacy)

A more widespread problem is that it facilitates identity theft.