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Digital identity

Digital identities will provide a gateway for citizens and SMEs into the connected ecosystem of services making up the digital economy. Consumers will be able to give permission for the secure use of their data across companies and sectors, allowing innovative players to create new services. Through market wide standards, digital identities will bring great economic and social benefits, deliver trust, security and privacy for citizens and save millions in costs for public and private sectors.

Digital ID News and Views

News and views

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30 Sep 2025

UK’s "Failure to Prevent Fraud": What you Need to Know

With the new Failure to Prevent Fraud offence that came into effect on September 1st, 2025, regulations around “associated persons” who commit fraud to benefit the business have become even more defined. Whether it’s an employee, contractor, or agent, companies will be criminally liable for any fraud committed regardless of their awareness.

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Digital ID Event Round-Ups

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Digital ID Reports
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15 Oct 2025

Digital ID: Empowering Citizens - Enabling Growth Report

In the light of the recent announcements on digital ID, techUK's new digital ID report seeks to cut through the noise and focus on what maters: ensuring clarity and consistency on the digital ID policy debate to address citizen privacy and civil liberty concerns with clarity and care; build awareness and wider confidence in digital ID solutions that already exist; and create the mechanisms so that government and industry can work together to drive meaningful adoption based on citizen need.

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04 Sep 2023

Biometrics in Digital Identity

The immediately obvious differential for any consumer using digital identity, and biometric data instead of existing, knowledge-based, manually-input, user name/password and additional multi-factor authentication safeguards (e.g. SMS) to either onboard to an online service as a new customer or login to an online service as a returning customer, is that the user experience is fast, convenient and secure, requiring little or no manual interaction.

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Digital Identity Working Group

Digital identities will provide a gateway for citizens and SMEs into the connected ecosystem of services making up the digital economy.

Here are the five reasons to join the Digital Identity programme

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What our members say: Julie Dawson, Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer at Yoti on Digital Identity and techUK support for SMEs.

Julie Dawson, Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer at Yoti discusses the importance of a digital identity, and how techUK has helped Yoti to grow from 50 employees when they became a member, to over 500 employees today. She discusses how techUK supported them to understand the sector, understand the key players, and helped them to network. Watch now. 

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All techUK's work is led by our members - keep in touch or get involved by joining one of the programmes below.

 

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Financial services

The financial services industry relies heavily on technology, from communications and infrastructures to new technologies such as cloud, AI and blockchain. Now more than ever, financial services providers embark on new digital transformation journeys to improve processes, resilience, and services. We bring together and connect firms from across the ecosystem to ensure innovation and technology can be fully harnessed and embraced by industry and regulators.

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Online Fraud

The Digital Regulation team plays a key coordinating role in techUK’s work on fraud - within this workstream, we look at the powerful role tech can play in combatting fraud and how Government can provide innovative leadership in this space.

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Central government

The Central Government Programme represents the supplier community of technology to the UK Government. We advocate for the industry, evangelise tech as a solution to public sector challenges, facilitate market engagement and help make the public sector an easier market to operate in. We help members make the most out of the public sector tech opportunity, and help government become a more intelligent customer for tech, ultimately driving value for money and improved public services for citizens.

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Our members develop strong networks, build meaningful partnerships and grow their businesses as we all work together to create a thriving environment where industry, government and stakeholders come together to realise the positive outcomes tech can deliver.

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