Thread by @NexusOfPrivacy

The Senate Transportation committee's hearing on SB 5105 #DigitalDriversLicences starts at 4:00. I'll be live-tweeting. #waleg

Here's the video: tvw.org/video/senate-t…

And here's the "bill report", with a quick summary: lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-…

Signins on #DigitalDriversLicenses are overwhelmingly CON -- including @ResistenciaNW @ACLU_WA and @IndivisEastside. @wapeopleprivacy is signed up to testify OTHER, as am I.

app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Home/getOt…

@ACLU's."Identity Crisis: What Digital Driver’s Licenses Could Mean for Privacy, Equity, and Freedom" has more on the risks of #DigitalDriversLicenses.

aclu.org/report/identit…

Hearing starts with SB 5195, fuel price transparency, from Senator Sam Hunt: requiring gas prices to be rounded up to the next cent.

Now, the staff briefing on SB 5015 -- basically the contents of lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-…

SB 5105: Implementation plan for #DigitalDriversLicenses by December 1.

Rules by August 1 2024.

Deployed system by September 1, 2024.

No fiscal note yet, @WA_DOL's estimate is that it's likely several million dollars in costs

Sen. Mark Mullet, a self-confessed luddite, wants trasnportation committee's help working it out. Other states are implementing, we don't want to be the last!

TImeframes in bill are too aggressive. In the next 12 months we'll get a sense of what format most states are using.

First testimony in person. @WA_DOL: excited about the possibilities, need time. Not sure we want to be first! Challenges: interoperability, acceptance. No standard yet, want to make sure we're betting on the winning horse. WA DOL wants to report back on the approach.

Have they been looking at other states? Yes, sent several people to a confernce in San Diego. Originally suggested a report by 12/2024, could get it done by end of the year. It's not just the visual inspection, there's also the digital key that helps validate it.

@wapeopleprivacy takes a human rights perspective, notes that we have to get beyond just looking at phones as convenice. Need laws that address privacy, data rights, and overreach of law enforcement. Especially important when SCOTUS is taking away rights

@wapeopleprivacy: need to take our time with it, dont back into a national ID card until we have more protections in place.

Cynthia Spiesss, pleae either oppose or amend. Section 1 is good, Sections 2 and 3 require implementation. Premature! What if passing the bill rsults in laswsuits?

Up next @jdp23 -- that's me, so a short break from live-tweeting.

@jennifer_e_lee of @ACLU_WA is CON. Brings up several risks of digital drivers licenses. Law enforcement could use digital driver's license verification as a pretext to search people's devices;

Records of digital ID checks could be held in a centralized database and allow for tracking of our everyday activities;

Agencies issuing licenses could instantly and remotely revoke digital driver's licenses, exacerbating abusive practices of driver's license suspensions;

Next testifier supports digital drivers license, agrees we should study the issue and come back in 2024.

And that's the end of public testimony on SB 5105, #DigitalDriversLicenses

SIgnins: 5 PRO, 90 CON (!)

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