US Government Agency Invites Organizations To Help It Accelerate Adoption of Digital ID

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. There appears to be a real sense of urgency among various governments and international organizations and groups not only to implement, but to speed up as much as possible adoption of digital IDs. One of these entities is the US government, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now inviting “anyone with expertise and products” to join the push for a speedy deployment of digital IDs on mobile devices. The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is charged with implementing this project, which is public-private in nature, with development of reference infrastructure (standards) stated as the goal that those interested would be working on. It may or may not appease the many critics of digital IDs to learn that NIST is promising this infrastructure will be “privacy focused and secure” – not to mention equitable and easy to not only adopt, but also use. In other words, this governments agency is on the one hand offering platitudes about privacy and security to cover the issue of the key criticism around the very concept and implementations of digital IDS – and on the other, NIST is “betting on convenience” when its speaks of ease of adoption and use as a way to “lure in” as many people as fast as possible. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is also saying that it is “cybersecurity challenges” that are to blame for the insufficiently fast…US Government Agency Invites Organizations To Help It Accelerate Adoption of Digital ID