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Applying the identity assurance principles to GOV.UK Verify: Part 3

Posted by: Orvokki Lohikoski, Posted on: 20 December 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works, Policy
Principle 8: If I have a problem I can get help

GOV.UK Verify's Privacy Officer Orvokki Lohikoski provides the third and last part in our series of blog posts illustrating what GOV.UK Verify's 9 Privacy Principles mean for our users.

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Applying the identity assurance principles to GOV.UK Verify: Part 2

Posted by: Orvokki Lohikoski, Posted on: 9 December 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works, Policy
Privacy principle 4: I will only be asked for the minimum amount of data needed to verify me

GOV.UK Verify's Privacy Officer Orvokki Lohikoski provides the second in a series of blog posts illustrating what GOV.UK Verify's 9 Privacy Principles mean for our users.

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Applying the identity assurance principles to GOV.UK Verify: Part 1

Posted by: Orvokki Lohikoski, Posted on: 30 November 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works, Policy
Privacy principle 1: I control how my data is used

GOV.UK Verify's Privacy Officer Orvokki Lohikoski provides the first in a series of blog posts illustrating what GOV.UK Verify's 9 Privacy Principles mean for our users.

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Privacy assessment in public beta

Posted by: Toby Stevens, Posted on: 19 May 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works

Independent Privacy Advisor, Toby Stevens, talks about assessing privacy-related risks and meeting users’ expectations of privacy during GOV.UK Verify's public beta.

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Accreditation and risk management in GOV.UK Verify

Posted by: Howard Staple, Posted on: 4 April 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works

Howard Staple, GOV.UK Verify's Security Operations Lead, looks at how GOV.UK Verify manages risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of data.

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How we work with experts to make GOV.UK Verify better

Posted by: Adam Cooper, Posted on: 24 March 2016 - Categories: Policy

Adam Cooper, Lead Technical Architect GOV.UK Verify, describes how we work with subject matter experts, industry, and open standards bodies to make GOV.UK Verify better for users.

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Managing privacy and mitigating risk

Posted by: Orvokki Lohikoski, Posted on: 3 March 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works

Point 7 of the Digital by Default Service Standard for a live service requires us to: Evaluate what user data and information the digital service will be providing or storing, and address the security level, legal responsibilities, privacy issues and …

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How we keep GOV.UK Verify secure

Posted by: Adam Cooper, Posted on: 24 February 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works, Security

Over a year ago I wrote a blog post about how we protect users’ privacy when signing in to a GOV.UK service with GOV.UK Verify. In that post I gave an overview of some of the things we do to …

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How we manage fraud and information security risk

Posted by: Alastair Treharne, Posted on: 18 January 2016 - Categories: How GOV.UK Verify works, Security

We need to make sure that GOV.UK Verify is protected against rapidly developing fraud and information security risks, to protect people's privacy and security. There are a range of ways we do this - this post is about the work we do …

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Matt Hancock on how user feedback is shaping GOV.UK Verify

Posted by: Rebecca Hales, Posted on: 27 October 2015 - Categories: Events

On 26 October 2015 the Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock spoke at the Institute for Government on how digital transformation can improve government services. In this excerpt he talks about the development of GOV.UK Verify and how he verified his …

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