The U.S. Department of the Treasury is exploring potential grants to assist state and local governments with financing digital identity systems, Nextgov reports. Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Rosenberg said, “digitizing local and state databases and developing appropriate infrastructure and applications such as mobile driver’s license infrastructure” can “support privacy preserving identity attribute validation services.” Digital identity systems would mean “less digital fraud and fewer stolen identities, with stronger defenses against ransomware attacks,” Rosenberg said.
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