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CDT Comments on NIST Digital Identity Guidelines With a Focus on Equity, Access, Privacy in Public Benefits Administration

/ Elizabeth Laird, Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, Nick Doty

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has submitted a comment in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) call for comments on the second public draft of revision four of the Digital Identity Guidelines (Special Publication 800-63).

CDT is pleased to see that NIST has taken steps to account for equity, access, and privacy in the identity management process in this draft. Our comments aim to advance these goals, particularly in the context of public benefits administration, an area where providing customer-centered, privacy-forward, multi-modal identity verification is paramount for protecting vulnerable individuals and people experiencing hardships while streamlining their access to life-saving benefits.

Read the full comments.

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