The Queensland digital drivers licence does meet international standards, but experts say allowing visual checks undermines that effort.
The international standard, ISO 18013-5, outlines best practices about how digital licences are used, how information is shared and how data is stored.
Personally I’m not convinced the Queensland one’s visual check is really so bad. In places where it’s more important to be precise they use the QR code, and when it’s less relevant (I’m in my 30s and got carded at a local pub just last week, to the amusement of the people I was there with) a visual check is good enough.
More concerning than the subject of the article, to me, is this news of fundamental security flaws from 2022 in how even the QR scanning version is implemented in NSW. It’s unclear whether any progress has been made in addressing that.
Personally I’m not convinced the Queensland one’s visual check is really so bad. In places where it’s more important to be precise they use the QR code, and when it’s less relevant (I’m in my 30s and got carded at a local pub just last week, to the amusement of the people I was there with) a visual check is good enough.
More concerning than the subject of the article, to me, is this news of fundamental security flaws from 2022 in how even the QR scanning version is implemented in NSW. It’s unclear whether any progress has been made in addressing that.