---
id: "driver_license"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 55
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/driver_license"
---

# Driver's license number (universal) (`driver_license`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of a driving licence, the document that a public authority issues to allow a person to drive motor vehicles. Each country or state defines its own format, so the registry keeps one record per issuer as a child of this one.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:OfficialID`

## Supported by tools

- `awscomprehend`
- `azureailanguage`
- `databricks`
- `dataprofiler`
- `snowflake`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_license>

## Quality

Score 55/100. Missing: regexp, examples, negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/driver_license.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/persons/driver_license.yaml>