Q: What information can a business swipe from my driver’s license or ID card barcode?Ī: When permitted, a business may collect ONLY your name, address, date of birth, and license number or ID card number. 2012: Read the legislative summary of the bill:.Before the law passed, a business in Hawaii could swipe the barcode on your driver’s license for any reason, use it in any manner, including selling the information to third parties for marketing, advertising, or promotional activities, and keep your information for as long as it wanted. § 487J better protects your privacy by banning private businesses from scanning your driver’s license and collecting, storing, using and/or sharing the personal information contained in the barcode, except in limited circumstances. 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?
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