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Consumer Identity Work Group News & Updates
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Introduction
The purpose of the Consumer Identity WG is to help ensure that emerging Internet-based identity infrastructures are designed and implemented in a way that can help prevent consumer identity theft and other identity-related fraud. CIWG does this by proposing specific requirements, recommendations, guidelines, and policy positions that foster the implementation and adoption of high assurance identity-related claims (ie, sets of identifiers or other attributes) that can help prevent identity theft and other types of identity-related fraud affecting consumers and service providers. CIWG also seeks to understand the feasibility issues pertaining to large-scale deployments of these capabilities.
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Read the Work Group charter.
Some Requirements to Support High Assurance Consumer Claims
As a first step towards this goal, the CIWG Interim Report, released in October 2010, addressed the problem of harmful identity theft and other types of identity-related fraud that affects consumers. The Interim Report highlights several issues that become important when considering how to design and implement an identity infrastructure to support high assurance identity-related claims in a way that consumers will find easy to use, that will maintain their privacy, and that will prevent others from