by Didi Rankovic at Reclaim the Net
The Biden administration is working to expedite widespread adoption of digital IDs, including driver’s licenses, a draft executive order indicates.
Digital IDs are a contentious concept primarily because of the concentration of – eventually – the entirety of people’s sensitive private information in centralized databases controlled by the government, and on people’s phones, “client-side.”
That in turn brings up the issues of technical security, but also privacy, and the potential for dystopian-style mass surveillance.
Proponents, on the other hand, like to focus on the “convenience” that such a shift from physical to digital personal documents is promised to bring.
In the US,…
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