• Dowden details Verify’s private sector future and signals end of direct Whitehall funding for identity programme

  The UK’s digital identity industry will this morning take stock of a key ministerial written statement on the GOV.UK Verify…
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• Europe’s Digital Agenda – Week Two

  Welcome to this edition of Europe’s Digital Agenda weekly summary. In this space I will try to uncover and detail…
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• As Verify comes under further scrutiny, IDPs weigh up their next move

  UK identity providers (IDPs) and hubs have spent the weekend weighing up their next moves after it emerged that the…
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• Child sexual abuse inquiry fined £200K by ICO: for bulk email that identified possible victims of child sexual abuse

  They say sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Independent Inquiry into Child…
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• GDS to hire cyber specialist to examine ‘risks and threats’ to Verify and ‘UK identity ecosystem’

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) is looking for cyber security consultancy help in investigating threats to GOV.UK Verify. According to…
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• Contract details published of McKinsey review of government identity solutions

  The Crown Commercial Service has published limited details of the Cabinet Office’s consultancy contract with McKinsey awarded last year to…
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• Harrison calls for more patience over Verify take-up

  Identity assurance scheme lead admits take up hasn’t matched government’s hopes or plans but says...
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• ICO: “Consent is one way to comply with the GDPR, but it’s not the only way”

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), in the latest of a series of blogs about GDPR ‘myths’, has discussed the issue…
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• Home Office issues tender for biometrics development

  The Home Office Biometrics (HOB) Programme is looking for a digital partner to develop and support applications for its HOB…
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• Brexit brake on Verify spurs GDS to woo private sector on digital identity

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) wants to “take its hands off the control” on identity, and wants to work with…
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