'What should Biden do in #DigitalIdentity?' panel, @RossNodurft carefully draws a distinction between [the prospect of a] "National ID" versus a "national approach to digital identity". Hear hear!! #IDPolicyForum
In Australia, any mention of national approaches to digital identity as national infrastructure sadly gets bogged down in the spectre of a dreaded National ID. #IDPolicyForum
MyPOV: One way to position a national *approach* without scaring people with a national ID is to remember how retail banking is standardised. All bank cards work in an identical fashion but each is different. There is no single bank account. #IDPolicyForum
Indeed, the plastic card authentication experience is nearly universal across thousands of different contexts. Health, employment, driver licences, physical access, education, loyalty, travel, transportation ticketing ... all the same card UX but distinct uses and businesses.
We could have the sort of uniform #UX (and privacy, security and usability) in consumer authentication and attribute presentation. We could provide our proof of age or citizenship or qualifications or whatever, with the same ease as when we tap a payment device. #IDPolicyForum
Back to what the panel said ...
Clements highlighted American cultural resistance to ID cards. But stressed that national approach to identity is more about "access to attributes". #IDpolicyforum
"Consumers desire control; digital identity should facilitate access to financial services." -- Carole House U.S Treasury FinCEN. #IDPolicyForum
The role of government? "Seed the digital identity framework" -- Scott Clements @onespan. #IDPolicyForum
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1/9 "Trust" of course is talked of everywhere. In #IDPolicyForum, a speaker bounced around from cryptographic trust, hardware roots of trust, and an anecdote about trusting the conference organiser because they were introduced by a mutual friend.
2/9 The trouble with this discourse and widespread use of the label is that it over-states what cryptographic "trust" is all about. It inflates lay peoples’ expectations of what #digitalidentity technology delivers.
Congress now overwhelmingly supports a national unique health identitifer (or at least overturning the ban on a health ID). Dealing with the opioid crisis is a driver. @RepBillFoster#IDpolicyforum
1. There's a always been this strong drive to make ID reusable, to reduce on-boarding friction, reduce accounts & passwords, save cost, even make money. -/2
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3. I have dozens of cards and accounts all labeled "Steve Wilson" and it seems redundant. Can't I boil them down to one? No, they're really not the same identity. Each is a different relationship. -/4