On 19 June, the Data (Use and Access) Act received Royal Assent. This is a major milestone for the government’s work to make sure individuals and businesses across the UK have access to trusted digital identity services when they want to use them
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of hosting digital identity specialists from the tech sector to tell them more about our ambition for the GOV.UK Wallet. They represented the UK’s Digital Verification Services (DVS) sector, that provide the digital …
Today, we publish our first full sectoral analysis of the UK’s digital identity ecosystem.
The register of digital identity and attribute services is now in public beta. This means it’s easier for businesses and the public to check and find trusted digital identity products across the UK. Faster and easier The new register …
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 …
