Shaping Digital Identity Standards: Explainer and Recommendations
A plain-language explainer and recommendations on technical standard-setting for digital identity systems for non-technical audiences
The document examines how technical standards, especially those from NIST, influence digital identity systems and stresses the need for equity, privacy, and user-centered design in these standards.
It recommends clearer definitions of human rights, tailored risk management, mandatory user consultation, stronger biometric safeguards, accessible options, effective mitigations, attention to data accuracy, careful assessment of federated systems, robust feedback and redress mechanisms, staff training, and awareness of public/private incentive misalignments to prevent exclusion and harm, particularly for marginalized groups.
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