Jay Stanley
Role at the time: ACLU senior policy analyst
Challenged the characterization
Response to this claim
Consumer choice will allow people to decide where to identify themselves with digital ID and where to remain anonymous.
“It’s a very comforting thought that we as consumers will have the power to stop omnipresent ID demands by, apparently, simply voting with our pocketbooks. If only we could have any faith that will be true.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Jay Stanley challenges digital-ID consumer-choice assurancesOpening discussion of Grossman's PBS interview and optional tools becoming requirements
Stanley uses the July interview to question whether market choice will preserve practical alternatives to digital identification.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The subject is reliance on consumer choice as protection against digital ID becoming a practical requirement. Stanley rejects confidence that consumer spending choices alone will preserve alternatives to digital identification.