The National Audit Office report published yesterday denigrates GOV.UK Verify to ‘yet another government IT failure’ and permits commentators to lament GDS failing to live up to its promise. The report fails to consider the enormity of the digital identity problem that GOV.UK Verify aims to address or the complexity of implementing almost any solution across [...]

In 2012 the Cabinet Office joined the Board of the newly formed Open Identity Exchange. It recognized the two traditional means of delivering government policy – procurement and regulation – would not be effective to GOV.UK Verify’s goal: a market of user centric di [...]

OIX UK | Europe General Member Representative to the Board Announcement Thanks to all who voted to elect a general member and their alternate who will represent you on the Open Identity Exchange UK | Europe Board of Directors. This year at the suggestions of members, we tested the single transferable vote / instant-runoff system to see [...]

Digital identity for thin file citizens and local authorities Alpha White Paper Federated identity is a powerful mechanism for increasing customer convenience, enhancing organisational efficiency and transforming the way online services are delivered. In the UK there i [...]

This year we are implementing the use a single transferable vote / instant-runoff system for the election of the OIX UK | Europe Board, General member representative, to replace the first-past-the-post approach we’ve used previously. Some useful details can be found in a Wikipedia article h [...]

Etive are holding a digital identity/Verify [...]

Open Identity Exchange welcomes Post Office as an Executive Member [...]

The Impact of Biometric Boarding on Airline Liability We published a new paper through OIX this week, titled Biometric Boar [...]

When people talk about personal data, many quickly get ensnared by endless debates about consent: what it means, whether people really understand what they are consenting to, how best to give and get informed consent, and so on. Consent is meant to empower individuals. To put them in control of their data. But it has become a stick to beat them with. It’s time to move on [...]

So far in this series, we have explained 1) that the biggest, most important issue about personal data is the one least talked about: the structural flaw at the heart of our system whereby individuals cannot gather, store or use their data for their own purposes, and 2) that to address this structural flaw we need a new personal data infrastructure that empowers individuals with their data and builds checks and balances into how the syst [...]