Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL), Congressman John Katko (R-NY), Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI), and Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) introduced the bipartisan Improving Digital Identity Act of 2020.
The legislation would work to modernize the country’s lagging digital identity infrastructure with a three-pronged approach:
“This bill is a much needed first step to ensuring the United States catches up with the developed world on digital identity,” said Congressman Foster. “So much of peoples’ daily lives are spent conducting business online – whether it’s banking, investing, shopping, or even communicating with doctors. It’s become vitally important to ramp up safeguards to protect against identity theft and fraud, so that both consumers and businesses can have confidence in online transactions and the peace-of-mind of protecting sensitive information.”
“COVID-19 has caused a lot of change in the way Americans live, work, and provide for our families, and we have become even more reliant on digi ..
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