particularly well suited to play a role in enhancing digital identity solutions used by both the public and private sectors, given the role of State governments as the issuers of driver’s licenses and other identity documents commonly used today. (9) The private sector drives much of the innovation around digital identity in the United States and has an important role to play in delivering digital identity solutions. (10) The 2016 bipartisan Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity called for the Federal government to “create an interagency task force directed to find secure, user-friendly, privacy-centric ways in which agencies can serve as one authoritative source to validate identity attributes in the broader identity market. This action would enable government agencies and the private sector to drive significant risk out of new account openings and other high-risk, high-value online services, and it would help all citizens more easily and securely engage in transactions online.” (11) The public and private sectors should collaborate to deliver solutions that promote confidence, privacy, choice, and innovation. (12) It should be the policy of the Government to use the authorities and capabilities of the Government to enhance the security, reliability, privacy, and convenience of digital identity solutions that support and protect transactions between individuals, government entities, and businesses, and that enable Americans to prove who they are online. 3. Improving digital identity task force (a) Establishment There is established in the Executive Office of the President a task force to be known as the Improving Digital Identity Task Force (in this section referred to as the Task Force ). (b) Purpose The purpose of the Task Force is to establish a governmentwide effort to develop secure methods for Federal, State, and local agencies to validate identity attributes to protect the privacy and security of individuals and support reliable, interoperable digital identity verification in the public and