#digital ID
How Soon Before You’ll Need a Digital ID to Access Public Services?
The Biden administration is drafting an executive order for federal and state governments to speed up the adoption of digital ID and for the development of a uniform, government-run online identity system to verify identity and age, and access public websites and services. “Even if a digital identity system only serves as identification at first, as the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice notes, digital identities are prone to ‘function creep’” — that is, “they are intended to be used for multiple purposes that are unforeseen when the system is first designed,” he said. Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, cited vaccine passports as one such possibility.
NOTUS, a nonprofit news outlet, obtained a draft of the executive order, which states: “It is the policy of the executive branch to strongly encourage the use of digital identity documents.” According to NOTUS, the executive order “could reshape how Americans access government services, and potentially behave online.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/digital-id-access-public-services-biden-administration/