The Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group (PCAG) is an independent voluntary body comprising privacy and security experts from across the UK. It provides the UK government with independent expert review, analysis, guidance and feedback on all personal data and privacy …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
