45 Organizations Call for no 3rd Party Vendors for Digital IDs

What is happening? 45 organizations including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Algorithmic Justice League, Fight for the Future, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Project on Government Oversight are calling on state and federal government to cease using 3rd party digital identification systems, ID.me.

Why is this important? There is no comprehensive law regulating the collection, use, disclosure and retention of biometric data.

How will this be important? Not only is there no comprehensive law, but also there is a 2019 study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology that found that the majority of facial recognition systems have demographic bias.

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