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> Our government bodies started allowing people to change their driver's license online.

Wow. Virtually never heard of. Most countries I suspect can't pull this off even if the intention is there.

I am not sure if it changes the difficulty of implementing something like this (which is/was undoubtedly a massive task) but the drivers licence number hasn't changed. There is an additional number on the back of the card called the Card Number.

There was already a process before hand to allow people to change their drivers license numbers, it just required more reasoning and there were barriers to entry having to call etc.

They've just made it an online form within our government identity portal.

Ah I wasn't aware. I was caught up in the breach like pretty much everyone, and was issued a new card with the additional Card Number on the back that I didn't have before, but my licence number stayed the same.

Are you saying I can change my actual license number too? Is this government identity portal you speak of myGovID?

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