Welcome to the slippery slope. The bill doesn’t require any specific age verification method, and it says it shouldn’t be construed to “require users to provide government-issued identification for age verification.” But in its most unusual provision, it would require the Secretary of Commerce to test a program doing just that. No later than two years after the bill goes into effect, the secretary of commerce would need to make a pilot program that would let people obtain a “secure digital identification credential” by uploading copies of IDs or validating identity information shared against electronic government documentation. The credential isn’t supposed to pass any private information to the social networks or keep records of where users have verified their identity, though the bill does allow for the pilot program to keep “aggregate data that is anonymized so that it cannot be linked to individual users.” Yeah right.