Government

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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.

1. Crating government-issued Identifiers - often as social security Identifiers
2. 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.

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.