SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is exploring how a state-approved digital ID could work, and state leaders say they’re doing it differently than other places.

Utah Chief Privacy Officer Chris Bramwell said he sees a wide variety of use cases for a digital ID.

“P retty much anywhere where you can imagine where you currently need to prove who you are, whether it’s to qualify for a service or you want to eliminate fraud so other people can’t use your data to pretend to be you. Those are obvious use cases for it,” he said.

But why go digital? Bramwell said “ real harms” are happening right now due to a lack of digital identification, especially when it comes to kids online.

“ Specifically, I want to highlight what’s happening with children online,” he said. “A lot of the harms online where children

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