The framework in practice

State implementation

Utah's SEDI legislation

Utah's State-Endorsed Digital Identity initiative is the most advanced legislative implementation of the identity architecture the Fiduciary Commons mandates. Two statutes constitute the SEDI framework:

Senate Bill 260 (2025, enacted)

SB 260 establishes the legal foundation for state-endorsed digital identity. It creates a framework in which the state endorses identity attributes that individuals already possess, rather than issuing or controlling identity credentials. The statute explicitly prohibits surveillance mechanisms, requiring that the state cannot monitor, surveil, or track the presentation of a state-endorsed digital identity to another entity.

Senate Bill 275 (2026, enacted unanimously)

SB 275 extends the SEDI framework with provisions that converge directly with PDTA's fiduciary duties. Key provisions include audit logs that are accessible only to the holder, exportable only by the holder, and deletable only by the holder; confidentiality protections that prevent government from accessing presentation data; and Attorney General enforcement authority for violations.

The convergence between Utah's SEDI legislation and the Fiduciary Commons framework is structural, not coincidental. Both derive from the same constitutional premise: that individual identity is inherent in the person and precedes state recognition, and that government's role is endorsement and verification, not definition or control.

Why SEDI matters beyond Utah

At least ten additional states have expressed interest in SEDI-model legislation. This resolves what had been a central adoption problem: that no state wanted to be first to enact constitutional identity architecture without evidence that others would follow. Utah's enactment, and the rapid multistate interest it generated, transformed the Fiduciary Commons from a framework seeking initial adoption to a framework explaining and consolidating a movement already forming.

Technology deployment

Privacy-preserving fraud prevention

The Fiduciary Commons framework's technical requirements are not theoretical. Privacy-preserving verification technology that satisfies VIDA's architectural mandates has been deployed at scale in production environments. The whitepaper Privacy-Preserving Fraud Prevention for Government Services, co-authored by Michael G. Leahy and Scott Jones of Realeyes.ai, documents how the VerifEye system demonstrates that governments can achieve robust fraud prevention without building surveillance infrastructure.

What the technology demonstrates

• Identity verification can be performed without centralized biometric databases, using privacy-preserving methods that confirm identity attributes without storing or transmitting raw biometric data.
• Fraud detection at government scale is achievable through architectural means that do not require the surveillance-capable infrastructure that VIDA prohibits.
• The tradeoff between security and privacy is false: constitutional architecture can deliver both simultaneously, and the documented return on investment from fraud reduction exceeds implementation costs.

The whitepaper is available for download. Critiques identifying specific technical claims that do not withstand scrutiny should be directed to the scholarship address.