Soon, people will be able to prove their age digitally when they buy alcohol. The Home Office’s recent consultation response outlined that government will legislate next year to allow digital identity services to be used as a proof of age …
We recently launched the second year of the inclusion monitoring report survey for certified digital verification services. It is compulsory for services certified against the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework to complete the survey. The purpose of the …
As part of our series of short updates on the Government’s plans to create a legislative framework for secure and trusted digital verification services in the UK, I can now report that the draft legislation has passed an important milestone …
It’s our responsibility – here in OfDIA – to ensure the register is accurate and up-to-date, and only includes digital identity and attribute services that have been assessed as meeting our rules. In this post, we explain how we intend to do that.
You shouldn’t have to be an expert in trust frameworks and certification to be able to identify a trustworthy digital identity service. And we’re doing two things to mean you don’t have to be.
In November, we pre-released the gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework. We also highlighted that we would be seeking feedback on this latest publication to inform our ongoing work. This post kicks off that engagement cycle, explaining how we …
We think digital identity services are a great way to prove who you are. We know that government is in a unique position to help people find services they can trust. My role – as the product manager for the …
How can we be confident that the trust framework rules are being followed? That’s the role of “conformity assessment”.
Today, we publish the first results from OfDIA’s digital identity market insight research. Our aim is to build an evidence base that can help answer the questions, and inform the actions, of policymakers, regulators and other key stakeholders in the …
Trust services sit under a piece of UK law called the eIDAS Regulations and they make electronic transactions faster, simpler, and more secure. In this blogpost, we talk about what OfDIA is doing with regard to trust services.
The UK Government is committed to promoting a global digital environment which is open but also safe. We believe that secure, privacy-enhancing digital identities that work across national boundaries can enable that objective.
