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GOV.UK Verify: How we use our social media channels
GOV.UK Verify is a new type of service, being delivered in a new way for the first time anywhere in the world, so our social media accounts present some interesting challenges. I'm responsible for GOV.UK Verify's digital communications channels, and this post is about how we're …
GOV.UK Verify hub - privacy aspects
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 …
How GOV.UK Verify works - a film
Here's a short film demonstrating how GOV.UK Verify works.
Identity assurance and the private sector - a discovery project
GOV.UK Verify works to published standards for identity assurance. These standards were designed to be usable in the wider public and private sectors as well as for central government services. In our objectives for this year, we’ve made clear that …
Basic identity accounts trial
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 …
The next 6 months: services that plan to start using GOV.UK Verify
We're blogging again after a quiet pre-election period. We posted in February listing some of the services we were expecting to start using GOV.UK Verify before August 2015. This post provides an update on our plans. Eleven of the services we …
The pre-election period
This Parliament ends on 30 March. Between then and the general election on 7 May is the pre-election period and the Civil Service communicates less, in line with the General Election Guidance.
Working with the private sector to verify identity
We’ve posted before about the work we are doing with private sector organisations, primarily through the Open Identity Exchange. This post is about how we are working with the private sector to make it easier for users to verify their …
GOV.UK Verify: Objectives for live
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 …
Procurement 2: New identity suppliers to join GOV.UK Verify
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 …