The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published draft guidelines concerning the management of digital identities online, and will welcome public comment on the draft until March 24 of next year.
The “Digital Identity Guidelines” publication (aka NIST Special Publication 800-63 Revision 4) is primarily concerned with the identity proofing and authentication of users interacting online with government information systems. And in drafting the guidelines, NIST has focused on four overarching goals: advancing equity, emphasizing optionality and choice for consumers, deterring fraud and advanced cyberthreats, and addressing implementation lessons that have previously been learned.
One such lesson – though it isn’t mentioned in the document itself – may be that there is considerable skepticism from the public, or at least mainstream media publications, about the use of facial recognition as the only means of authentication.
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