Earlier this year we introduced some objectives explaining what ‘live’ will mean for us, and what we are aiming to achieve by the time we move from beta to live in April 2016. This post gives an overview of the …
Today I was excited to speak at Follow the Entrepreneur 2015, an event hosted in partnership with OIX UK, about how we’re developing a market for identity services in the UK. Here's a film of my presentation: I've also made my slides …
The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) has today published a white paper kicking off a discovery exercise to explore the range of needs for identity assurance in the private sector. Through this piece of work, OIX is aiming to gather views …
We blogged earlier this year about some work we were doing with HMRC to trial a new GOV.UK Verify product - basic identity accounts. Basic identity accounts don't verify the identity of the user, but they do give the user a …
We've been asked to comment on an academic paper - 'Toward mending two nation scale brokered identity systems'. The paper explores some interesting issues about how federated identity assurance systems like GOV.UK Verify work, and how users' privacy can best be protected. We …
GOV.UK Verify is a new way to prove who you are online. It provides a convenient, secure way to access government digital services, and stops other people pretending to be you. We’ve verified more than 140,000 identities, and around 5,000 …
We’ve previously said that GOV.UK Verify will become the default way for people to access government services that need know who they are by 2016. In this post, we’re introducing some objectives that explain what we are aiming to achieve within …
We’ve completed our procurement exercise for a new framework for certified companies. Nine companies have this week signed framework agreements to become certified companies for GOV.UK Verify: Barclays Digidentity Experian GB Group Morpho PayPal Post Office Royal Mail Verizon Four …
We have recently concluded the process of setting up a new framework for certified companies. Mydex CIC will not be a certified company in the next framework for identity providers. However, Mydex CIC will continue to work with the Identity …
By March 2016, GOV.UK Verify will be the default way for people to prove their identity when using digital services that need to know who the user is. In HMRC’s case, this will include a range of personal tax services …
