Your identity
belongs to you.
States can make digital identity safer and more useful without tracking people. State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) is the framework that shows how.
Your state confirms facts it already knows about you, like your age or that you live there.
You share only what is needed. Proving you are 21 or older does not reveal your name, address, or birth date.
The state may not track where you use it. The agency that issued your ID is not told, and your ID works offline.
Your state confirms facts it already knows about you, like your age or that you live there.
You share only what is needed. Proving you are 21 or older does not reveal your name, address, or birth date.
The state may not track where you use it. The agency that issued your ID is not told, and your ID works offline.
Four problems every state is facing.
ID is vital
39% of adult citizens earning under $30,000 lack a driver license with their current name or address.
University of Maryland CDCE survey, January 2024
Today
To start a job, rent a home, or see a new doctor, people upload a photo of their ID and a selfie, again and again.
With SEDI
The state vouches for facts about you, and you choose what to share.
Fraud
$212B in suspicious activity tied to identity in a single year of Bank Secrecy Act reports.
FinCEN analysis of 2021 filings, January 2024
Today
Every new data breach adds to the supply of stolen names and Social Security numbers.
With SEDI
A state-endorsed digital identity is signed by the state. Stolen personal data alone is not enough to produce that signature.
AI
FinCEN warned in November 2024 that criminals are using generative AI to create fake identity documents, photos, and videos.
FinCEN Alert FIN-2024-Alert004
Today
Faces and documents made with AI can fool photo and selfie checks.
With SEDI
The state signs proof that a fake photo or voice cannot copy.
Children and social media
New York and California passed laws in 2024 that limit addictive social media feeds for minors unless a parent consents.
New York SAFE for Kids Act (2024); California SB 976 (2024)
Today
Proving age often means handing a parent's ID or a teen's face scan to each app.
With SEDI
A teen can prove they are old enough without revealing a birth date or handing over an ID.
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Identity belongs to the person, not the government. The government's role is not to create or control identity but to endorse and protect it as a matter of public trust.
SEDI recognizes it is the role of the state to act as a trusted endorser, verifying an individual's asserted identity and then issuing an endorsed credential mathematically bound to a digital identifier that the individual alone controls.
A model for digital ID that any state can adopt.
State-Endorsed Digital Identity is a model any state can adopt in whole or in part. The state vouches for facts about you. You decide when, and with whom, to share them.
Your rights, written into law
The Digital Identity Bill of Rights, first enacted in Utah, lists eleven rights for everyone, including people who never get a digital ID. A Duty of Loyalty limits how the state, wallet providers, and businesses that check your ID may use your data. Here are three of the rights.
Selective disclosure
You choose which facts to share. Proving you are 21 or older does not mean handing over your name or address.
Freedom from surveillance
The state may not track, profile, or monitor where you use your digital ID, except as authorized by law.
Freedom from compelled digitization
The state cannot make you use a digital ID in place of a physical one.
From a Utah law to a multistate effort.
Utah writes the principles into law
SB 260 passes with no votes against, and Governor Cox signs it.
The first SEDI Summit
Policymakers, advocates, and technologists meet at Utah Valley University.
SB 275 becomes law
It passes 25 to 0 in the Senate and 70 to 0 in the House, with Republicans and Democrats voting yes, and Governor Cox signs it.
States gather
More than 25 states take part, and the Kantara Initiative becomes the consortium's home.
Utah's executive order on AI
It directs the Department of Government Operations to develop and use SEDI, where applicable, as the state's strategic trust infrastructure for AI.
The Park City Summit
States meet to move legislation and implementation forward.
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Your state
Every state is invited to join the consortium.
AI represents a generational opportunity to better serve Utahns, but technology must always remain accountable to the people.
[Utah's SEDI law] includes many important privacy protections and represents the best effort we have yet seen in a state to square privacy protections with the looming dangers to civil liberties that flow from digital identities.
The driving principle behind the bill is the belief that a state should endorse identity, not create it, and that such an endorsement of a digital identity should not come along with unauthorized state surveillance, tracking, or persistent monitoring through a digital identity system.
SEDI Summit 2026
November 17 to 19 at Park City Mountain Resort. Policymakers, civil liberties advocates, industry, and technologists working on digital identity policy.
Bring SEDI to your state
SEDI is a model any state can adopt in whole or in part. Start with the model legislation, the public implementation guide, and the experience of Utah, the first state to pass a SEDI law.