Leingruber, who works for the Mozilla Foundation, says the idea for the ID project came to him when he was crossing the border from Canada to the U.S., and a customs official jokingly asked him for his Facebook name instead of his passport.

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Kentucky will also use these funds to expand the scope of its REAL ID Pilot Project by comparing U.S. foreign born citizens applying for a REAL ID driver's license with the U.S. Department of State's foreign born citizen birth record information.

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Using 100 volunteers armed with Series 60 phones (like the Nokia 6682, pictured), the Nokia-funded project tracked such data as incoming and outgoing calls, Bluetooth activity, and approximate location (via celltower ID data).

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