UK PM appointing MP Josh Simons lead for national digital ID: report
UK PM Kier Starmer has selected a champion for his proposed but yet-undetailed mandatory digital identity system. Josh Simons, first-term…
GOV.UK Wallet
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UK gov’t plans tour to fix argument to public on national digital identity
UK government officials have admitted that the initial attempt to communicate a new policy for introducing national digital identity was…
GOV.UK app downloads jump to more than 250K in November
It’s been five months since the GOV.UK app launched in public beta, enabling UK citizens to access government services on…
MPs avoid substantive debate on UK digital ID to flog hobby horses at committee hearing
The UK’s first parliamentary debate on national digital identity presented the irony of a roomful of people representing a whole…
No pints with digital ID or porn from Belize for UK revelers this Christmas
UK drinkers raising a glass to former Technology Secretary Peter Kyle this Christmas would best honour him with a glass…
Dialogue between UK government, digital identity providers gets restart next week
Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones will meet with UK digital identity providers next Tuesday, December 2 for…
First official cost estimate for UK gov’t digital ID plan: £1.8B over 3 years
A provisional estimate for the cost of the UK’s national digital ID system pegs it at £1.8 billion (approximately US$2.4…
UK digital ID plan includes local councils, maybe private sector, no new funding
The UK’s government digital ID plan continues to take shape piecemeal, with an expansion to cover a new layer of…
Views on UK digital ID scheme multiply among industry, public, privacy advocates
Government-led digital identity and the UK have a complicated relationship. It comes with a past: the national identity card plan…
UK digital ID shouldn’t be a betrayal of DIATF-certified identity firms
The latest Westminster eForum policy conference looks at the next steps for digital identities and verification services in the UK,…
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