Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Shouldn’t we have an alternative before we toss out the old rules?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_cybersecurity_eo_digital_ids/

Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud

President Donald Trump late Friday signed a cybersecurity-focused executive order that, in the White House's words, "amends problematic elements of Obama and Biden-era Executive Orders."

In his last few days in office, President Biden signed a executive order (EO) focused on cybersecurity that aimed to eliminate the use of stolen and fake identities by criminal gangs, because they are used to "systemically defraud public benefits programs costs taxpayers and wastes Federal Government funds."

To accomplish this goal, Biden’s presidential mandate directed federal agencies to work with states to develop and issue mobile driver's licenses and the infrastructure needed to verify these types of digital ID cards.

Trump’s order wipes out a section of the Biden order, titled "Solutions to Combat Cybercrime and Fraud".



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