Re: new ACLU Legislative Guidance

Kaliya, thanks for the heads up. The ACLU blog post is one of the best pieces about the reality of digital credentials that I’ve read in years. It strikes me as a very real assessment of the privacy and inclusion challenges—and how to proactively address them.

Having just come back from seeing the Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) system<https://dhi.bt/newsroom/newsupdate/Bhutan%20Adopts%20NDI%20Act> in action—where the safeguards the ACLU recommends are built directly into the national NDI Act—there is real proof that it can be done right at scale.

The question is: will the U.S. states listen?

=Drummond

From: Kaliya Identity Woman <kaliya@identitywoman.net>
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 1:02 PM
To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: Re: new ACLU Legislative Guidance
There is also a blog post about it.
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/state-legislatures-need-to-block-creation-of-nightmarish-national-identity-system



On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:59 PM Kaliya Identity Woman <kaliya@identitywoman.net<mailto:kaliya@identitywoman.net>> wrote:
The ACLU has just published Legislative Guidance around Digital IDs
https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-digital-id-state-legislative-recommendations