Private Sector Digital Verification Groups Raise Concerns Over GOV.UK Wallet
A U.K. announcement regarding the upcoming GOV.UK wallet “sent shockwaves through the sector,” digital verification companies said in a Tuesday letter to Peter Kyle, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology.
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The Association of Digital Verification Professionals, the Age Verification Providers Association and the Online Safety Tech Industry Association raised concerns that the government seeks to directly compete with the private-sector digital ID market. “The absence of any reference to the thriving private market, or of reassurance that non-governmental digital IDs will remain equally viable, risks history repeating itself by damaging the prospects for this technology as a whole.”
The groups urged the government to limit the wallet to authentication for public services only, allow Trust Framework-compliant digital IDs to be accepted for public services, and to allow government-issued credentials to be held in any certified wallet.