Improving Digital Identity: Enhancing Security and Fighting Online Fraud.
This Act establishes a government task force dedicated to creating safer and more private ways for citizens to verify their identity online, such as through digital versions of existing credentials like driver's licenses. The goal is to significantly reduce financial losses from identity theft and fraud, which currently cost billions annually. Crucially, the use of these new digital tools will remain voluntary and will not result in a single mandatory national ID.
Key points
Establishment of a Task Force to coordinate Federal and State efforts to enhance the security and reliability of digital identity verification.
Development of secure, digital versions of existing identity documents (e.g., driver's licenses, passports) to facilitate trusted online transactions and service access.
Solutions must be consent-based, with an explicit prohibition against creating a single mandatory federal ID or a central national identification registry.
Reducing the risk of identity theft and fraud, which costs Americans billions, by improving verification systems used across public and private sectors.
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