Protecting privacy and identity in the GOV.UK Verify scheme
6 November 2014
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For the last two years I've been working with colleagues in the Cabinet Office's Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group to develop privacy principles for the government's online identity assurance programme. This is now close to launch, and got some front-page attention in The Times on Monday. Here is the just-published letter we sent to the newspaper with more details. The Government Digital Service has also published a response. Sir, Today’s Times (4/11/2014) front-page story contains an error: “Virtual ID for
