{"id":6911,"date":"2019-03-06T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:03:37","slug":"uk-identity-scheme-verify-suffer-from-lack-of-ambition-warns-institutional-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/uk-identity-scheme-verify-suffer-from-lack-of-ambition-warns-institutional-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Identity Scheme ‘Verify’ Suffer from Lack of Ambition, Warns Institutional Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK Identity Scheme ‘Verify’ Suffer from Lack of Ambition, Warns Institutional Report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Issues with the Verify identity assurance scheme, highlighted by a damning report from the UK\u2019s National Audit Office (NAO), are primarily down to a lack of ambition, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. In the report, NAO points out that\u00a0only 3.6 million users signed up for the digital identification scheme \u2013 way off the 2020 goal of 25 million goal and the expectation that the flagship identity verification platform would cost \u00a3212 million and generate \u00a3873 million between 2016 to 2020. An objective now far away to be accomplished.<\/p>\n

Verify\u00a0is the identity assurance\u00a0system developed by the UK\u00a0Government Digital Service<\/a>\u00a0(GDS). The system is intended to provide a single trusted\u00a0login\u00a0across all\u00a0UK\u00a0government digital services, verifying the user\u2019s identity in 15 minutes.\u00a0It allows users to choose one of several companies to\u00a0verify their identity, like Barclays, Royal Mail or CB Group\u00a0to a standard level of assurance before accessing central government\u00a0online services.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the NAO report, Gary Barnett, chief analyst, Technology Thematic Research at GlobalData, said, \u201cVerify\u2019s woes aren\u2019t so much down to a lack of technical nous as a lack of political ambition. As long as big government departments feel able to plough their own furrow there will never be a single standard for identity across UK government.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe key issue remains the government\u2019s need to provide far greater clarity for identity providers over what its future identity plans are, what the commercial model for Verify looks like post-April 2020, and how private sector providers will take over control and management of Verify. Effective communications are essential in the digital identity landscape and the new senior responsible owner for digital identity at Government Digital Service (GDS) must go a long way towards putting proper communications in place, sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n