Digital IDs can improve convenience, but they risk surveillance, data misuse, and exclusion if not designed with privacy, security, and accessibility safeguards.
This guide introduces privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and provides practical guidance for government agencies on selecting and implementing them to securely use, share, and protect sensitive data.
This guide outlines ethical frameworks and best practices for responsibly collecting and using demographic and other sensitive data to build equitable digital products.
This report offers a detailed assessment of how AI and emerging technologies could impact the Social Security Administration’s disability benefits determinations, recommending guardrails and principles to protect applicant rights, mitigate bias, and promote fairness.
This report reviews global AI governance tools, highlighting their importance in ensuring trustworthy AI, while identifying gaps and risks in their effectiveness, and offering recommendations to improve their development, oversight, and integration into policy frameworks.
The OECD's Recommendation on the Governance of Digital Identity, adopted on 8 June 2023, provides guidelines for member countries to establish secure and user-centric digital identity systems that enhance trust and facilitate access to online services.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This policy brief explores how federal privacy laws like the Privacy Act of 1974 limit demographic data collection, undermining government efforts to conduct equity assessments and address algorithmic bias.
This academic paper examines how federal privacy laws restrict data collection needed for assessing racial disparities, creating a tradeoff between protecting individual privacy and enabling algorithmic fairness in government programs.
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT)
This report offers best practices for public agencies implementing digital identity verification, emphasizing privacy, equity, and security in the delivery of government services.
The toolkit provides strategies for state and local WIC agencies to enhance enrollment by utilizing data from Medicaid and SNAP for cross-program data matching and targeted outreach.
This report analyzes the rise of digital driver’s licenses (DDLs) and warns that, without strong safeguards, they could threaten privacy, civil liberties, and equitable access to identification.
