GOV.UK Verify is designed to help fight the growing problem of online identity theft. Identity Advisor Julian White explains what we mean by identity fraud and describes some of the kinds of fraud GOV.UK Verify’s standards are designed to help prevent.
The National Audit Office (the body that scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament) has published a briefing paper on identity assurance today. The paper gives an overview of how the identity assurance programme and GOV.UK Verify work, how GOV.UK …
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 …
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 …
At the end of November we'll launch a procurement exercise for suppliers interested in becoming identity providers. We're planning to set up a new framework agreement, and then to issue call-off contracts to identity providers on the framework. Identity providers operate …
Today we've published a guide on GOV.UK that explains in more detail what checks identity providers must perform to meet the published standards. When you use GOV.UK Verify to access a government service, you will be asked to choose a certified company. The …
On Monday 9th June OIX UK presented Economics of Identity, their highly anticipated, fully booked event hosted at the KPMG offices in London.
The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) has recently published a white paper (written by Ian Litton and Rob Laurence) on the first completed Identity Steering Group (IDSG) project. The paper examines how a local authority’s identity assurance scheme, in this case, …
The latest in our series of Good Practice Guides (GPG 46) is now available on GOV.UK. This guide deals with proving the authenticity (identity) of a legal organisation, such as a business, partnership, charity, government body or other public sector …
