The National Audit Office (the body that scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament) has published a briefing paper on identity assurance today. The paper gives an overview of how the identity assurance programme and GOV.UK Verify work, how GOV.UK …
We’ve reached another important milestone this week on the identity assurance programme - the second certified company (or 'identity provider') has joined the GOV.UK Verify public beta. Experian took part in our private beta from February to October and was …
GOV.UK Verify involves people choosing a certified company to verify their identity and allow them to access digital government services. Over time, we want as many people as possible to be able to verify their identity using GOV.UK Verify. To …
At our market briefing event on 30 October we talked about our intention to launch Procurement 2 at the end of November. Since then we've been busy reviewing the procurement documents on the basis of feedback we received at the event and finalising them for publication. Our …
GOV.UK Verify will protect you from someone else pretending to be you and fraudulently accessing sensitive records and services. This is increasingly important as it becomes possible for people to do more things entirely digitally (such as changing your personal details with a …
We've had some questions and comments this week about how mobile phones are used as part of GOV.UK Verify so thought it might be useful to write a short post about it. In summary, you won't have to use a mobile …
This week we’ve published the slides from our recent market briefing event. We held the event on 30 October to make the market aware of developments on the Identity Assurance Programme since our previous briefing event in April. We’ve explained in …
Today we're publishing two posts that explain what we're doing to protect users' privacy when they use GOV.UK Verify. For the last three years we've been working with our Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group to embed privacy into the service. The …
We’ve built GOV.UK Verify on the basis of a programme of intensive user research, development and iteration over more than a year, and we expect we’ll need to continue to refine how GOV.UK Verify works to make sure it works smoothly …
We’ve been working with departments to identify the digital services that will need to use GOV.UK Verify. This post lists the services we’re expecting to start using GOV.UK Verify in the next 6 months. The Government’s aim is that all …
