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 * [https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-research/a-new-approach-to-address-concerns-about-overuse-of-digital-ids (2025-10-30) A New Approach to Address Concerns About Overuse of Digital IDs] Governments are increasingly offering people the option of getting a digital counterpart to the paper and plastic identity credentials that agencies issue, which can be stored in a digital wallet.
 * [https://idtechwire.com/utah-endorses-privacy-focused-digital-id-system/ Utah Endorses Privacy-Focused Digital ID System] 2025-10-24 Utah officials this week promoted their upcoming State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) system, emphasizing privacy and user control. The new program, mandated by Senate Bill 260 passed earlier in 2025, will give residents the option of a government-issued digital ID stored in a mobile wallet.
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 *Heather Flanagan was contracted by the Open-ID Foundation to create a document.<ref>Heather Flanagan ed. ''Government-Issued Digital Credentials and the Privacy Landscape'' Open ID (2023-05-04) https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2023/05/Government-issued-Digital-Credentials-and-the-Privacy-Landscape-final.pdf</ref>
 * [https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-research/a-new-approach-to-address-concerns-about-overuse-of-digital-ids (2025-10-30) A New Approach to Address Concerns About Overuse of Digital IDs] Governments are increasingly offering people the option of getting a digital counterpart to the paper and plastic identity credentials that agencies issue, which can be stored in a digital wallet.
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 ==Government-Issued Digital Credentials and Privacy==
 *Heather Flanagan was contracted by the Open-ID Foundation to create a document.<ref>Heather Flanagan ed. ''Government-Issued Digital Credentials and the Privacy Landscape'' Open ID (2023-05-04) https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2023/05/Government-issued-Digital-Credentials-and-the-Privacy-Landscape-final.pdf</ref>
-* [https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-research/a-new-approach-to-address-concerns-about-overuse-of-digital-ids A New Approach to Address Concerns About Overuse of Digital IDs] Governments are increasingly offering people the option of getting a digital counterpart to the paper and plastic identity credentials that agencies issue, which can be stored in a digital wallet.
+* [https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-research/a-new-approach-to-address-concerns-about-overuse-of-digital-ids (2025-10-30) A New Approach to Address Concerns About Overuse of Digital IDs] Governments are increasingly offering people the option of getting a digital counterpart to the paper and plastic identity credentials that agencies issue, which can be stored in a digital wallet.
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 ==Government-Issued Digital Credentials and Privacy==
 *Heather Flanagan was contracted by the Open-ID Foundation to create a document.<ref>Heather Flanagan ed. ''Government-Issued Digital Credentials and the Privacy Landscape'' Open ID (2023-05-04) https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2023/05/Government-issued-Digital-Credentials-and-the-Privacy-Landscape-final.pdf</ref>
-* [https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-research/a-new-approach-to-address-concerns-about-overuse-of-digital-ids A New Approach to Address Concerns About Overuse of Digital IDs]
+* [https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-research/a-new-approach-to-address-concerns-about-overuse-of-digital-ids A New Approach to Address Concerns About Overuse of Digital IDs] Governments are increasingly offering people the option of getting a digital counterpart to the paper and plastic identity credentials that agencies issue, which can be stored in a digital wallet.
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 ==Government-Issued Digital Credentials and Privacy==
-Heather Flanagan was contracted by the Open-ID Foundation to create a document.<ref>Heather Flanagan ed. ''Government-Issued Digital Credentials and the Privacy Landscape'' Open ID (2023-05-04) https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2023/05/Government-issued-Digital-Credentials-and-the-Privacy-Landscape-final.pdf</ref>
+*Heather Flanagan was contracted by the Open-ID Foundation to create a document.<ref>Heather Flanagan ed. ''Government-Issued Digital Credentials and the Privacy Landscape'' Open ID (2023-05-04) https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2023/05/Government-issued-Digital-Credentials-and-the-Privacy-Landscape-final.pdf</ref>
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	For purpose of regulation of people's actions and collecting taxes with greater efficiency, [[Government Digital Experience]]s are proliferating, but the legal and [[User Experience]] of their offerings are often far below that possible and enabled by commercial digital experiences.		For purpose of regulation of people's actions and collecting taxes with greater efficiency, [[Government Digital Experience]]s are proliferating, but the legal and [[User Experience]] of their offerings are often far below that possible and enabled by commercial digital experiences.
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		+	Governments pass laws and regulations that can hamper development of use products. [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4753107 The False Choice Between Digital Regulation and Innovation] tries to show that is wrong, but only shows that there are many types of laws that can hamper innovations.

	==The Proper Role of Government==		==The Proper Role of Government==

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 In "The Road to Serfdom"  Frederich Hayek explained that government intervention in markets would lead to a loss of freedom, he recognized a limited role for government to perform tasks for which he believed free markets were not capable:<ref>Friedrich A. von Hayek,  ''The Road to Serfdom,  why the continual expansion of the state endangers liberty.'' CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. (2006-07-09 original in 1944) ISBN 978-1500345600.</ref><blockquote>The successful use of competition as the principle of social organization precludes certain types of coercive interference with economic life, but it admits of others which sometimes may very considerably assist its work and even requires certain kinds of government action.</blockquote>
-While Hayek is opposed to regulations that restrict the freedom to enter a trade, or to buy and sell at any price, or to control quantities, he acknowledges the utility of regulations that restrict legal methods of production, so long as these are applied equally to everyone and not used as an indirect way of controlling prices or quantities, and without forgetting the cost of such restrictions:
+While Hayek is opposed to regulations that restrict the freedom to enter a trade, or to buy and sell at any price, or to control quantities, he acknowledges the utility of regulations that restrict legal methods of production, so long as these are applied equally to everyone and not used as an indirect way of controlling prices or quantities, and without forgetting the cost of such restrictions:<blockquote>To prohibit the use of certain poisonous substances, or to require special precautions in their use, to limit working hours or to require certain sanitary arrangements, is fully compatible with the preservation of competition. The only question here is whether in the particular instance, the advantages gained are greater than the social costs they impose.
-To prohibit the use of certain poisonous substances, or to require special precautions in their use, to limit working hours or to require certain sanitary arrangements, is fully compatible with the preservation of competition. The only question here is whether in the particular instance, the advantages gained are greater than the social costs they impose.[34]
+He notes that there are certain areas, such as the environment, where activities that cause damage to third parties (known to economists as "negative externalities") cannot effectively be regulated solely by the marketplace:<blockquote>Nor can certain harmful effects of deforestation, of some methods of farming, or of the smoke and noise of factories, be confined to the owner of the property in question, or to those willing to submit to the damage for an agreed compensation.</blockquote>
-He notes that there are certain areas, such as the environment, where activities that cause damage to third parties (known to economists as "negative externalities") cannot effectively be regulated solely by the marketplace:
+The government also has a role in preventing fraud:<blockquote>Even the most essential prerequisite of its [the market's] proper functioning, the prevention of fraud and deception (including exploitation of ignorance), provides a great and by no means fully accomplished object of legislative activity.[</blockquote>
 The government also has a role in creating a safety net:
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 There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom; that is: some minimum of food, shelter, and clothing, sufficient to preserve health. Nor is there any reason why the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision.[37][38]
-He concludes: "In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing."[36]
+He concludes: "In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing." What is most significant about the book is that the criticism is not about what he did say, but rather what he did not say, but clearly did support, like the welfare of citizens.
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	For purpose of regulation of people's actions and collecting taxes with greater efficiency, [[Government Digital Experience]]s are proliferating, but the legal and [[User Experience]] of their offerings are often far below that possible and enabled by commercial digital experiences.		For purpose of regulation of people's actions and collecting taxes with greater efficiency, [[Government Digital Experience]]s are proliferating, but the legal and [[User Experience]] of their offerings are often far below that possible and enabled by commercial digital experiences.
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		+	==The Proper Role of Government==
		+	In "The Road to Serfdom" Frederich Hayek explained that government intervention in markets would lead to a loss of freedom, he recognized a limited role for government to perform tasks for which he believed free markets were not capable:<ref>Friedrich A. von Hayek, ''The Road to Serfdom, why the continual expansion of the state endangers liberty.'' CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. (2006-07-09 original in 1944) ISBN 978-1500345600.</ref><blockquote>The successful use of competition as the principle of social organization precludes certain types of coercive interference with economic life, but it admits of others which sometimes may very considerably assist its work and even requires certain kinds of government action.</blockquote>
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		+	While Hayek is opposed to regulations that restrict the freedom to enter a trade, or to buy and sell at any price, or to control quantities, he acknowledges the utility of regulations that restrict legal methods of production, so long as these are applied equally to everyone and not used as an indirect way of controlling prices or quantities, and without forgetting the cost of such restrictions:
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		+	To prohibit the use of certain poisonous substances, or to require special precautions in their use, to limit working hours or to require certain sanitary arrangements, is fully compatible with the preservation of competition. The only question here is whether in the particular instance, the advantages gained are greater than the social costs they impose.[34]
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		+	He notes that there are certain areas, such as the environment, where activities that cause damage to third parties (known to economists as "negative externalities") cannot effectively be regulated solely by the marketplace:
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		+	Nor can certain harmful effects of deforestation, of some methods of farming, or of the smoke and noise of factories, be confined to the owner of the property in question, or to those willing to submit to the damage for an agreed compensation.[35]
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		+	The government also has a role in preventing fraud:
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		+	Even the most essential prerequisite of its [the market's] proper functioning, the prevention of fraud and deception (including exploitation of ignorance), provides a great and by no means fully accomplished object of legislative activity.[36]
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		+	The government also has a role in creating a safety net:
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		+	There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom; that is: some minimum of food, shelter, and clothing, sufficient to preserve health. Nor is there any reason why the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision.[37][38]
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		+	He concludes: "In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing."[36]
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 Since governments have sovereign immunity they can make assertions that private enterprises would consider too expensive from a liability perspective. This lack of liability risk allows governments to ignore some obvious issues that private  enterprises would avoid, like the strong identification of residents.
-Edmond Burke had this to say about government actions.<ref>Edmond Burke, ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'' p. xiii The Library of Liberal Arts</ref><blockquote>The laws reach but a little way. Constitute Governments how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers, which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, hour Commonwealth is no better tan a scheme upon paper; and not a living, active, effective constitution.</blockquote>
+Edmond Burke had this to say about government actions.<ref>Edmond Burke, ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'' p. xiii The Library of Liberal Arts</ref><blockquote>The laws reach but a little way. Constitute Governments how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers, which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the laws depends upon them. Without them, hour Commonwealth is no better than a scheme upon paper; and not a living, active, effective constitution.</blockquote>
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