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I forecast a huge freakout about mobile drivers licenses (mDLs), ginned up by industry.

Here's why: At the moment, a dozen private vendors are successfully inserting themselves into the online equivalent of a mundane, decades-old interaction: a member of the public showing their state-issued ID to a government employee. This interaction used to cost literally nothing. Now big contracts go to vendors to do this, because there *is* no online equivalent of a state-issued ID.