Bill > S884

This bill establishes the Improving Digital Identity Task Force to develop secure methods for federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies to improve access and enhance security between physical and digital identity credentials. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Establishing the Task Force to coordinate a government-wide effort to promote the development of digital versions of existing physical identity credentials, with the goals of protecting privacy and security, supporting reliable and interoperable digital identity verification, reducing identity theft and fraud, enabling trusted transactions, and ensuring equitable access. 2. Requiring the Task Force to assess existing agency capabilities and restrictions, recommend a strategy to enable secure and privacy-protecting digital identity verification services, identify funding and resources needed, and undertake other activities to address digital identity verification challenges. 3. Prohibiting the Task Force from recommending the creation of a single identity credential, a central national identification registry, or a requirement that individuals use digital identity verification for public purposes. 4. Requiring the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance to federal agencies on implementing the Task Force's recommendations and to report on federal agency progress in improving digital identity verification capabilities. 5. Directing the Government Accountability Office to report on the estimated potential savings, including from averted fraud and identity theft, due to increased adoption of digital identification.

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