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Digital ID proponents tend also to seek to centralize a number of things of relative concern among critics: A Digital ID system is a centralized approach to '''trust'''. See [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Early_CA_infrastructure|HTTPS/SSL history]] for problems with centralized trust models.  Digital ID proponents also seek to centralize very large<ref>"..now reportedly contains information on 5,500 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states and multiple territories and districts." from  "US biometric surveillance database reaches 10,000 data points "  Nov 21, 2022 https://www.biometricupdate.com/202211/us-biometric-surveillance-database-reaches-10000-data-points</ref><ref>"Government databases could replace document-based ID verification: Sumsub CTO" Dec 12, 2022 https://www.biometricupdate.com/202212/government-databases-could-replace-document-based-id-verification-sumsub-cto</ref> datasets and '''databases'''<ref>Video "Dangers of plants and centralized data"  Matt Gubba, circa Jan 22, https://twitter.com/Raul_Aztec/status/1617187582743388237</ref>. This sort of policy is attractive externally (to hackers and bad actors) and  internally(poor morale and ethic, human error, incompetence<ref> "Bumbling NYPD contractor nearly infects fingerprint database with ransomware " Dec 13, 2019 https://www.biometricupdate.com/201912/bumbling-nypd-contractor-nearly-infects-fingerprint-database-with-ransomware</ref> ).

Digital ID proponents tend also to seek to centralize a number of things of relative concern among critics: A Digital ID system is a centralized approach to '''trust'''. See [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Early_CA_infrastructure|HTTPS/SSL history]] for problems with centralized trust models.  Digital ID proponents also seek to centralize very large<ref>"..now reportedly contains information on 5,500 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states and multiple territories and districts." from  "US biometric surveillance database reaches 10,000 data points "  Nov 21, 2022 https://www.biometricupdate.com/202211/us-biometric-surveillance-database-reaches-10000-data-points</ref><ref>"Government databases could replace document-based ID verification: Sumsub CTO" Dec 12, 2022 https://www.biometricupdate.com/202212/government-databases-could-replace-document-based-id-verification-sumsub-cto</ref> datasets and '''databases'''<ref>Video "Dangers of plants and centralized data"  Matt Gubba, circa Jan 22, https://twitter.com/Raul_Aztec/status/1617187582743388237</ref>. This sort of policy is attractive externally (to hackers and bad actors) and  internally(poor morale and ethic, human error, incompetence<ref> "Bumbling NYPD contractor nearly infects fingerprint database with ransomware " Dec 13, 2019 https://www.biometricupdate.com/201912/bumbling-nypd-contractor-nearly-infects-fingerprint-database-with-ransomware</ref> ).

===Surveillance ===

===Privacy ===

 

 

Many are concerned that federated digital identity places too much importance on "''who'' are you" (as if what a service provider can establish from cards and multifactor authentication falls short and that knowledge of one's business history is needed at each new signup):

Many are concerned that federated digital identity places too much importance on "''who'' are you" (as if what a service provider can establish from cards and multifactor authentication falls short and that knowledge of one's business history is needed at each new signup):

::''It is important to differentiate between digital identification and digital authentication. Digital authentication is something most of us do every day – logging on to our favourite social media site, signing into an account with our preferred ecommerce retailer, or even accessing our mobile device through a thumb scan. Authentication is the act of proving that the person accessing my account or device is me, usually through a PIN, password, biometric identifier or other form factor. Authentication is designed to answer the question “Is that you?” Identification, by contrast, is more complex. Identification is intended to answer the question “Who are you?” Digital ID is the challenge of answering “Who are you? with a high degree of certainty, without resorting to face-to-face interaction and the exchange of physical documents.''<ref>"White Paper: Canada’s Digital ID Future - A Federated Approach", Posted on: May 30, 2018, https://cba.ca/embracing-digital-id-in-canada</ref>

::''It is important to differentiate between digital identification and digital authentication. Digital authentication is something most of us do every day – logging on to our favourite social media site, signing into an account with our preferred ecommerce retailer, or even accessing our mobile device through a thumb scan. Authentication is the act of proving that the person accessing my account or device is me, usually through a PIN, password, biometric identifier or other form factor. Authentication is designed to answer the question “Is that you?” Identification, by contrast, is more complex. Identification is intended to answer the question “Who are you?” Digital ID is the challenge of answering “Who are you? with a high degree of certainty, without resorting to face-to-face interaction and the exchange of physical documents.''<ref>"White Paper: Canada’s Digital ID Future - A Federated Approach", Posted on: May 30, 2018, https://cba.ca/embracing-digital-id-in-canada</ref>

'''Travel, Carbon tracking'''<br />

=== Travel, Carbon tracking ===

December 2021, just before Christmas, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) acknowledged that it ''secretly'' tracked location data from at least 33 million mobile devices to analyze people's movements during COVID-19 quarantines.<ref>Video, press conference, tweet Jan 18, 2022, https://twitter.com/Aslapes11/status/1483389677096820742</ref>. Concerns are whether this behaviour continues to this day or has suitable checks and balances.<br />

December 2021, just before Christmas, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) acknowledged that it ''secretly'' tracked location data from at least 33 million mobile devices to analyze people's movements during COVID-19 quarantines.<ref>Video, press conference, tweet Jan 18, 2022, https://twitter.com/Aslapes11/status/1483389677096820742</ref>. Concerns are whether this behaviour continues to this day or has suitable checks and balances.<br />