PRIVACY: Consumer Protection-Driver License Data. Technology that allows them to swipe this data. A person’s age by swiping the driver license.

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? Barcode Font Code 39 Full Ascii Barcode. YOU SHOULD BE. Invasion of Privacy. Identity theft. Abuse of personal information.

A 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. Yet increasingly, private businesses are requiring you to show I.D. For everyday purchases – building massive databases of barcode information with every transaction. Because they could – until now. On June 28, 2012, Hawaii passed a law limiting access to your driver’s license barcode.

§ 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. 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. Read the text of the bill: Read the legislative summary of the bill: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: Q: What information can a business swipe from my driver’s license or ID card barcode? A: When permitted, a business may collect ONLY your name, address, date of birth, and license number or ID card number. Q: When is it legal for a business to scan the barcode on my ID?

A: Hawaii law bans businesses from scanning your driver’s license barcode except in the following cases: • There is a reasonable doubt that you are under 18 years of age and you are buying age restricted goods or services, like cigarettes, alcohol, Nicorette gum, mature video games, or cold medicines; • You pay for something with a credit or debit card, return an item or request a refund or an exchange and the business wants to verify your identity or the authenticity of your driver’s license; • The business is establishing or maintaining a contract with you, like a cell-phone plan contract. Q: Does the new law prohibit a company from making a photocopy of my ID? The law only restricts the scanning of the barcode information. Can a business sell my information to a third party? Not under the new law.