Mobile Driver's License
Mobile Driver's License.
A digital driver's license held in a smartphone wallet, conformant to the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard, accepted for age verification, identity verification, and increasingly air travel and government services.
The selective-disclosure property is the practical win for mDL over physical IDs. At a bar, showing a physical license reveals the licensee's full name, address, height, eye color, license number — every field on the card. The mDL equivalent reveals only "this person is over 21 and the credential is valid." For CIAM identity verification flows, the same property reduces the data the relying party collects and stores.
Common questions
Where is mDL accepted in 2026?
Is an mDL legally equivalent to a physical driver's license?
How does mDL selective disclosure work?
Related terms
In the guides
Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials: What CIAM Teams Should Know
EUDI Wallet rolls out in 2026. US mDL adoption is uneven but real. DID and VC are no longer research projects. The CIAM-side impact, and when to start integrating.
Identity Verification and Proofing (IDV/KYC): A CIAM Guide for 2026
How to prove a real person matches a claimed identity at signup — document capture, liveness, authoritative-data checks. The 2026 stack, the deepfake escalation, and where CIAM ends.