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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. | 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'', The Library of Liberal Arts</ref>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'', 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> |
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Revision as of 12:14, 10 February 2024
Contents
Full Title or Meme
Sovereign states have a monopoly of use of force in its jurisdiction although it may contract that use of force to private entities. These states need to know which of their residents are lawful citizens and what rights and privileges are afford to each one. This implies the need to identify each resident with their respective rights and privileges.
Context
- Each government can create departments of a variety of sorts which can be granted some subset of the government's sovereign powers.
- For US State governments, it has been common for each agency to create their own customer/stakeholder lists with identity and sign-in.
- Establish a basic standard for life and labor and provide the necessary basic foods for all. Once that is done set the people free. Get out of the way and let them all make the best of themselves and win whatever prizes they can for their families and for their country. Only in this way can will an active, independent, property-owning democracy be established - (1947-10-26) Winston Churchill, conservative party chair, UK.
There are several ways that Governments get involved in Identity and Access Management.
- Crating government-issued Identifiers - often as social security Identifiers
- Crating government-issued Credentials, licenses are other grants of privilege, Permission or identification.
Problems
Sovereign states are not necessarily more likely to protect private User Information than commercial entities and only have Liability for disclosure when enabled by legislation. This fact is often referred to as Sovereign Immunity.
There are a huge number of reasons for governments to collect data on residents. See the details about one state in the wiki page on State Mandated Identification.
For purpose of regulation of people's actions and collecting taxes with greater efficiency, Government Digital Experiences are proliferating, but the legal and User Experience of their offerings are often far below that possible and enabled by commercial digital experiences.
Trustworthy
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.[1]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.
Status
Some Status as of 2021-12-02
Kristina Yasuda to Everyone UAE seems to have the best digital ID app Singapore refused to accept paper certs that Japanese gov issued so if you are a vaccinated Japanese flying to Singapore, and only have a paper one, you need 14 day quarantine btw doing NFC phone to phone for mDL is really awkward UAE is the same - I think your national ID card itself is a credit card lol Torsten Lodderstedt to Everyone and the government will pay your debts ;-) Kristina Yasuda to Everyone wish that the mDL ecosystem would be the same log into OIDC to get an mDL simple John Bradley - Chile requires National ID on every credit card receipt, which makes identity theft a national crime.
- Cross-border digital ID is coming: MasterCard plans to supply infrastructure 2021-11-29. The governments of Singapore Australia and New Zealand working on inter-op.
Government-Issued Digital Credentials and Privacy
Heather Flanagan was contracted by the Open-ID Foundation to create a document.[2]
References
- ↑ Edmond Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, The Library of Liberal Arts
- ↑ 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
