Digital Verification Services
The digital verification service provisions in this Act aim to increase trust in and acceptance of digital identities across the UK to help make identity proofing easier, cheaper and more secure and to enable a trusted digital identity market to develop in the UK for those that choose to use it to prove things about themselves, for example when starting a new job or moving house. To do this, the Act establishes a legislative structure for the provision of digital verification services in the UK, where providers of those services wish to be registered on a government register. It also enables public authorities to disclose personal information to registered digital verification services providers for the purpose of identity and eligibility verification.