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By: Nick Mothershaw - 13 Oct 2020
Keywords: Digital Identity
Consultation Documents
OIX responded on 12th October 2020 to the ‘Next steps for DCMS Digital Identity policy development’ questionnaire.
Key points made in the response can be summarised as:
- OIX advocates for a public-private approach to the definition of the UK Trust Framework for Digital Identity and the accompanying Competent Authority.
- As well as Identity Providers, The Trust Framework must recognise and accredit suppliers of components of trust, and relying parties undertaking their own ID verification.
- The Competent Authority should be a public-private partnership.
- OIX could be considered as start point from which to define the Competent Authority, which could also leverage the OIX brand and the OIX Directory.
- Inclusion is already being partly addressed by the OIX / TechUK Inclusion Steering Group.
- A fine balance between privacy and transparency must be struck
- Any fees for government data sources must be of a level that will allow relying parties to achieve cost efficiencies over and above using existing ID verification approaches.