Re: Utah State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) legislation

Thanks so much for working for liberty. In the text:
"(3)A state-endorsed digital identity may not include a mechanism that
allows the department to monitor, surveil, or track the presentation of a
state-endorsed digital identity to another entity."

-Brent Shambaugh

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 9:17 PM Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, SEDI is a watershed in terms of a government recognizing that it does
> not actually confer identity, only endorse it.
>
> At a SEDI conference the week before the last Internet Identity Workshop
> last October, 11 other U.S. states attended to learn more about this
> approach. So we are hopeful it could catch on.
>
> It is notable how SEDI contrasts with other government digital identity
> wallet initiatives such as the EUDI. Those embrace (mostly) the citizen
> being sovereign for the wallet, but depend heavily on the anchor credential
> being a government-issued ID number.
>
> They have been much slower to warm up to DIDs.
>
> =Drummond
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 10:10 AM Venu R <w3c@misc.reddyhome.us> wrote:
>
>> I have been following it too.
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>> Good news for the community and those of us interested in seeing SSI in
>> practice.
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>> Sent from Proton Mail for Android.
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>> On Wednesday, 02/11/26 at 09:52 Manu Sporny - msporny at
>> digitalbazaar.com <msporny_at_digitalbazaar_com_loowprouyq@simplelogin.co>
>> wrote:
>> Hi CCG'ers (and bcc: VCWG),
>>
>> Just wanted to point out that the Utah State-Endorsed Digital Identity
>> (SEDI) legislation has been posted for review and it is /really,
>> really good/.
>>
>> https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/SB0275.html
>>
>> Kudos to a number of digital credentials ecosystem long-timers for
>> working with Utah legislators on this bill (Timothy Ruff, Sam Smith,
>> Steve McCown, some in the "No Phone Home community", and others that
>> I'm forgetting or not aware of).
>>
>> The most important thing about the legislation is that it upholds a
>> number of principles that have been at the core of the W3C
>> Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials work. It's an
>> excellent read, and I hope other U.S. states take notice.
>>
>> -- manu
>>
>> --
>> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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