"The 2005 REAL ID Act requires states to develop drivers licenses that evade forgery attempts, such as by imprinting biometric information that can scanned and linked to a central database." This act is a joke. It doesn't require any information to be visible on the license--only in digital form. It also says nothing about how the data is encoded. Each state could do it in a different way thereby forcing an officer to carry 51 different digital readers in order to read a license!