Oversight body lists risks for the US’ mired Login.gov project

The U.S. government's Login.gov program continues to provide lessons to review for future public administration, public policy and digital identity students.

Officials from a Department Treasury's inspector general’s office, a watchdog agency, last month published a significantly redacted 20-page memo (largely a timeline) recounting the Internal Revenue Service sign-on travails.

The memo is one of the more unflattering portraits of government, generally, and digital ID and access management by government, specifically. It very much is worth the time to read. …

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