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A Verifiable Success The future of identity in the UK

Scott Corfe

A Verifiable Success The future of identity in the UK Scott Corfe

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FIRST PUBLISHED BY The Social Market Foundation, August 2017 ISBN: 978-1-910683-29-3 11 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QB Copyright © The Social Market Foundation, 2017 The moral right of the authors has been asserted. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.

THE SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION The Foundation’s main activity is to commission and publish original papers by independent academic and other experts on key topics in the economic and social fields, with a view to stimulating public discussion on the performance of markets and the social framework within which they operate. The Foundation is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is independent of any political party or group and is funded predominantly through sponsorship of research and public policy debates. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors, and these do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors or the Social Market Foundation.

CHAIR Mary Ann Sieghart

DIRECTOR James Kirkup

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Matthew d’Ancona Baroness Olly Grender MBE Nicola Horlick Baroness Tessa Jowell DBE Sir Brian Pomeroy CBE Peter Readman Baroness Gillian Shepherd

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CONTENTS Acknowledgements 5 About the author

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Foreword from OT-Morpho

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Executive summary

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Introduction 12 Who are you? Proving your identity in the UK

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Proving your identity elsewhere

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The problems with business as usual

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The opportunity

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Seizing the opportunity

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Conclusions 42

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publication of this report has been made possible by the generous support of OT-Morpho. The views in the report do not necessarily reflect those of OT-Morpho.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Scott Corfe Scott Corfe joined the SMF as Chief Economist in 2017. Before joining, he was Head of Macroeconomics and a Director at the economics consultancy Cebr, where he led much of the consultancy’s thought leadership and public policy research. His expert insights are frequently sought after in publications including the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. Scott has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, Radio 4 and a range of other broadcast media. Scott was voted one of the top three forecasters of UK GDP by Focus Economics in 2016.

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A VERIFIABLE SUCCESS

FOREWORD FROM OT-MORPHO The UK ranks as one of the world’s leading digital economies, and the Government has helped to make this possible through ambitious programmes such as GOV.UK Verify, which allows a single trusted login across all government digital services. ID assurance programmes such as Verify have revolutionised how we carry out what are now everyday tasks – such as signing in to a personal tax account, claiming for money owed or checking a state pension. But we are still at the start of this journey. Verify lays the foundations for the UK to go further in terms of secure online verification. The challenge for governments around the world is to set high standards and create a trust framework that enables secure digital platforms and new biometric technologies