President Donald Trump has rolled back digital identity provisions from a Biden administration executive order in a move that experts say could leave the U.S. less secure.
A Friday executive order amended and struck down several parts of the Biden order deemed “problematic.” Trump also added new directives on software security, post-quantum cryptography and artificial intelligence.
The cyber-focused January executive order, issued at the end of the Biden administration, included directions for new guidance on how agencies can use mobile drivers licenses — or mDLs — to verify people online.
It also included a push for the Social Security Administration to help other agencies verify people for public benefits, and for the Treasury Department pilot sending notifications to people when their information is used to get government money, giving them a chance to stop the payment if they weren’t behind the request.
A White House fact sheet stated that the new Trump executive order removed “a mandate for U.S. government issued digital IDs for illegal aliens that would have facilitated entitlement fraud and other abuse.”
But the gutted Biden policies included nothing about immigrants lacking permanent legal status. The White House didn’t provide more details on their claims.
The fact sheet also said that the Biden-era policies “[introduced] digital identity mandates that risked widespread abuse by enabling illegal immigrants to improperly access public benefits.”
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