'Urgent need' for national digital ID policy, says TechUK

guest · Feb 6, 2019

'Urgent need' for national digital ID policy, says TechUK
February 6, 2019
https://www.scmagazineuk.com/urgent-need-national-digital-id-policy-says-techuk/article/1524990

The government urgently needs to develop a coherent strategy to make secure and trusted methods of digital identity widely available to people and organisations, says a report published this morning by Tech UK.
In the report, The Case for Digital IDs, the IT industry trade body says the government has failed to create a digital identity system that works for all government departments let alone the wider economy.

"To ensure the UK does not fall behind other countries, we must create an interoperable framework for digital IDs which spans the public and private sectors," Julian David, CEO of TechUK, told Computer Weekly.

In practical terms, digital IDs create single points of failure which have vulnerabilities as has been demonstrated by India’s Aadhaar biometric identification system which has suffered breaches and in Estonia with the discovery of a vulnerability in its ID card security certificates.

Another point of vulnerability is enrolment onto the system, Woodward said. If a criminal can create a fake physical identity by using false documents, what is to stop him from doing the same with a digital ID, he asked.
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A techUK white paper - The case for digital IDs (PDF): https://www.techuk.org/images/documents/digital_id_FINAL_WEBSITE.pdf

Minimalist · Sep 13, 2019

With hacks on the rise, is it time to revisit a national ID?

A national identification system has been pitched as a potential alternative to a current identity system that experts say is broken and makes it too easy for criminals and other bad actors to trick financial institutions and engage in fraud, but the idea has traditionally run up against fierce resistance. However, it is becoming more popular over the past decade as countries like India, the Philippines, Estonia and others have developed their own national ID systems.
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https://fcw.com/articles/2019/09/13/national-id-cyber-johnson.aspx

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