| Abstract |
State governments find themselves immersed in identity issues at all levels. On one hand, state issued driver's licenses are the de facto gold standard for identity across the United States. At the same time, we grapple with the problem of how to reas onably require citizens to use digital IDs issued by non-government entities for government business. At another level, state governments also track large amounts of personally identifying data about their citizens. Citizens fear what government can d o with all that identifying data and at the same time demand convinient and easy to use services from state web portals. Technology isn't going to solve these problems: public policy questions are worked out in the legislature and the courts, not the I T shop. Technology companies and technologists who understand these issues need to be more involved politically for these issues to be resolved correctly. |
