Topic: Digital Identity
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Enterprise Single Sign-On Playbook
The Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) Playbook is a practical guide to help federal agencies implement or modernize an SSO service for federal employee access to government applications.
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2024 Edition: Account Creation and Identity Proofing in Online Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Applications
This page includes data and observations about account creation and identity proofing steps specifically for online applications that include WIC.
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Saving Face: Investigating the Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Auditing
This paper explores design considerations and ethical tensions related to auditing of commercial facial processing technology.
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Digital Identity Community of Practice Kick-Off
This video documents the Digital Benefits Network's Digital Identity Community of Practice launch, covering mission review, 2025 goals, California authentication innovations, and peer networking for equitable and effective digital identity in public benefits.
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Digital Identity in Public Benefits
In this updated primer, the DBN describes how identity proofing and authentication show up in public benefits applications and outlines equity and security concerns raised by common identity proofing and authentication methods.
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Biometric Identification Technologies: Considerations to Address Information Gaps and Other Stakeholder Concerns
Biometric identification technologies—such as facial recognition and fingerprinting—can affect underserved communities, including low-income and minority communities. GAO interviewed academics, advocacy groups, and technology experts to find out how.
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Keynote Eric Mill – The Future of Strong Authentication, in the US Government and Beyond
This video comes from the Better Identity Coalition’s 2022 policy forum, “Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead."
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European Digital Identity
This website provides information on the European Union's efforts to develop an EU Digital Identity.
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The difference between digital identity, identification, and ID
This style guide from Caribou Digital outlines how to talk about identity in a digital age.
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Domain Shift and Emerging Questions in Facial Recognition Technology
This policy brief offers recommendations to policymakers relating to the computational and human sides of facial recognition technologies based on a May 2020 workshop with leading computer scientists, legal scholars, and representatives from industry, government, and civil society
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Digital Benefits Hub
A dynamic, open-source reference library for practitioners who are working through complexity to improve access to economic and wellbeing supports.
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Key Practices to Reduce Improper Payments through Identity Verification
This report from the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program outlines efforts to use identity verification to reduce improper payments in government programs, while mitigating bias and disparate impacts.