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Did HMRC really 'lock taxpayers out' from their online accounts?
- Editor in chief 26 Apr 2022 -
The state of digital identity in the UK - such a great idea, you'll need a whole bunch of them
- Editor in chief 18 Mar 2022 -
At last, the world is listening to the Horizon victims - the Post Office must finally listen, too
- Editor in chief 25 Feb 2022
Did HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) really “lock taxpayers out” from their online accounts, as The Guardian has claimed? It’s a situation that arose from a predictable and – according to HMRC – ...
The promise of digital identity is a simple one: Prove once that you are who you say you are, and then forever more you have a single method to log in to any online service you choose. No more ...
We are only two weeks into the statutory inquiry examining the Post Office IT scandal – two weeks of what is likely to be a year-long process – and already what we’ve learned is only compounding ...
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For 2022, let's get less excited about tech
- Editor in chief 10 Jan 2022 -
At last, the UK has a mass-market digital identity system - now let's use it
- Editor in chief 25 Oct 2021 -
Time to take a step back on police use of facial recognition
- Editor in chief 18 Oct 2021 -
Do we really want a single digital identity system to access government services?
- Editor in chief 17 Sep 2021 -
The UK government data protection reforms - good for business, but are they good for you?
- Editor in chief 16 Sep 2021 -
UK government set to unveil next steps in digital identity market plan
- Editor in chief 12 Jul 2021 -
Clashing agendas, by David Freud - review: How Universal Credit got there in the end
- Editor in chief 30 Jun 2021
We all understand and recognise the enormous potential for technology to transform our work, our economy, our culture, our society, our lives. We all know the incredible benefits that lie in store ...
Great news for all those who have followed the troubles and travails of digital identity in the UK for the past couple of decades. Finally, we have a digital ID system, developed in the public ...
We’ve all seen the detective shows on TV. The cops find a CCTV picture of the likely “perp”. The put-upon junior detective is tasked with wading through a database of photos in the hope of finding ...
Is the UK government about to make a new announcement on its plans for a single digital identity for citizens to access online public services? On 22 September, two seemingly coordinated ...
This is a guest post by Computer Weekly security editor Alex Scroxton, which features in the 21 September issue of the Computer Weekly digital magazine as its leader column. It is hard to sum up ...
The next phase of the UK government’s plan to support a market of certified, interoperable digital identity providers is set to kick into gear, with digital infrastructure minister Matt Warman due ...
It was nearly 10 years ago, in October 2011, when Computer Weekly first reported on concerns about the IT project behind Universal Credit. That was five months before the new Coalition government’s ...
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The dangers of binary arguments in a complex and relative digital world
- Editor in chief 25 Jun 2021 -
Lack of leadership, confusion and frustration - the state of digital identity in the UK
- Editor in chief 20 Apr 2021 -
Zombified Gov.uk Verify is officially dead - so what's next?
- Editor in chief 26 Mar 2021 -
Industry concerns over government digital identity plans risk a confusing outcome for users
- Editor in chief 23 Feb 2021 -
Unravelling the new digital leadership plans in UK government
- Editor in chief 13 Jan 2021
In his 1983 book, Modern times: a history of the world from the 1920s to the year 2000, historian Paul Johnson claims the modern world started on 29 May 1919, when astronomers studying a solar ...
To nobody’s surprise, efforts by a group of peers to force the government to accelerate progress on digital identity in the UK foundered in the House of Lords yesterday (20 April 2021). Baroness ...
The UK government has finally admitted in public for the first time that its flagship digital identity programme, Gov.uk Verify, is dead. This will be no surprise to anyone following the project, ...
A flurry of recent activity suggests the government is ramping up its plans for the long-awaited demise of Gov.uk Verify, its failed attempt to produce a digital identity system for online public ...
In September 2019, the then civil service chief executive John Manzoni told Computer Weekly that the new digital leader he wanted to recruit for the UK government would “have to be very wise, very ...