US Policy Letter on Digital Identity
Association for Computing Machinery
U.S. Technology Policy Committee
1601 Broadway
New York, NY 10018
The Honorable Senator Kyrsten Sinema
317 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Sinema,
The Association for Computing Machinery’s U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) applauds your efforts to improve digital identity services. We encourage Congress to continue working to realize the fruition of these efforts and prioritize this critical technology in the next session. We commend the House’s longstanding, bipartisan efforts to address digital identity and encourage federal agencies to continue piloting solutions. As the Senate starts a new session, we want to highlight the critical need to continue efforts to secure Americans’ digital identities.
Improving digital identity services and strengthening the cybersecurity of digital identity verification holds the potential to:
- Decrease identity theft and fraud, especially benefit fraud;
- Reduce cybercrime, especially the threat of ransomware; and
- Increase trust and reliability in electronic commerce transactions.
As the new administration and Congress form their priorities, it is critical to study and make recommendations on digital identity infrastructure, which would help advance digital identity services to benefit all Americans. USTPC has technical and policy expertise in cybersecurity, privacy, and digital infrastructure. We welcome speaking with you or your staff about these issues and would appreciate your advice on how to pursue these issues in the next Congress.
Sincerely,
Chair of the USTPC
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. The ACM delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM’s U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USTPC), currently comprising more than 170 members, serves as the focal point for ACM’s interaction with all branches of the U.S. government, the computing community, and the public on policy matters related to information technology. The Committee regularly educates and informs Congress, the Administration, and the courts about significant developments in the computing field and how those developments affect public policy in the United States. USTPC’s substantive work, which is entirely non-partisan and apolitical, is done mainly through standing Subcommittees of dedicated volunteers and in coalition with other organizations
