Posts about policy on issues to do with identity assurance and GOV.UK Verify
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) recently published a proposal for future work on the topic of digital identity. UNCITRAL brings together governments, academics, lawyers and industry bodies to develop legal instruments that support international trade. Given …
We’ve been building and reviewing privacy management functions around GOV.UK Verify that will assure users we are handling their data in accordance with their expectations. As with any system, there’s a healthy tension between convenience for the user, the need …
We are building GOV.UK Verify to protect people’s privacy and security. To help us to do this, we have a Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group consisting of privacy and security experts. The group has developed a set of Identity Assurance …
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 …
Four weeks ago Mike Bracken blogged about a vision for the EU's digital economy. Here's a little more about how that vision fits with the work we’re doing on GOV.UK Verify. The UK’s vision for digital work in Europe is based …
European Union member states have been developing electronic identity (eID) schemes for some time now to allow citizens to access services safely and securely online. Many of these schemes are linked to national identity cards or schemes, whereas others involve working …
This post is about how certified companies are assured as being safe for people to use as part of GOV.UK Verify. When you use GOV.UK Verify for the first time to access a government service, you'll choose a certified company …
GOV.UK Verify is designed to preserve users’ privacy when they access digital services. The identity assurance programme’s independent Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group recognised the need for GOV.UK Verify to go further than the requirements of the Data Protection Act …
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 …
We wanted to share some of the work that we're doing to help make it possible for people to use GOV.UK Verify to identify themselves when accessing services in other European countries. The eIDAS Regulation European member states want people …
