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How does a certified company establish that it's really you?
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Janet Hughes, Posted on:
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How GOV.UK Verify works, Standards and certification
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 …
What we’re doing to help teams across government use GOV.UK Verify
Janet recently wrote about the services that plan to start using GOV.UK Verify over the next 6 months and how, by March 2016, we’re aiming for all services that require identity assurance for individuals to be using GOV.UK Verify. I’m …
Identity assurance in the European Union
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Robin Walker and Sam Rea, Posted on:
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Industry and market engagement, Policy, Standards and certification
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 …
Using evidence from user research to redesign GOV.UK Verify
I work as a user researcher for GOV.UK Verify. The core of what I do is understanding how GOV.UK Verify works for real people, and finding ways to make it simpler and better. One of the most valuable ways to …
Using mobile phones as part of GOV.UK Verify
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Janet Hughes, Posted on:
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How GOV.UK Verify works, Standards and certification
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 …
Market briefing event 30 October - slides
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Max Curzon-Hope and Janet Hughes, Posted on:
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Events, Industry and market engagement
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 …
Privacy and GOV.UK Verify
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Janet Hughes, Posted on:
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Delivery, How GOV.UK Verify works, Policy, Research
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 …
How the GOV.UK Verify technical architecture protects users' privacy, and why it's appropriate
When we designed the identity assurance architecture we wanted to protect users from identity theft and fraud, to secure their data as it is used online, and to reduce the amount of information needed from the user to a minimum. …
Protecting privacy in GOV.UK Verify
GOV.UK Verify will provide users with a simple, trustworthy and secure means of accessing public services. Privacy is an essential component of that trust relationship. I’m an independent privacy specialist working alongside the GOV.UK Verify team to ensure that the …
GOV.UK Verify - continuous improvement
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 …