What is MyIdentity

The Government recognised that in some business cases there may be a requirement for digital verification service providers to follow additional rules to those within the Government’s DIATF trust framework. MyIdentity has established consistent language and requirements to help organisations, and people, interact and build trust that the identity they receive from a customer, or from one another, is accurate and reliable.

MyIdentity is an identity trust framework, a secure trust infrastructure, where companies follow agreed standards, conventions and regulations, creating trust with each other.

MyIdentity enables a customer to verify their identity once to an industry and Government backed set of standards, improving customer identity verification.  The identity market is changing from a risk-based approach to a standards-based approach.

The Government wants to accelerate innovation, investment and uptake of digital identity, whilst ensuring that services are safely developed and deployed for the benefit of all who use them.

The MyIdentity supplementary code is where the property industry came together and included the additional requirements they needed, which exceed those in the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.  To make it easy for businesses to know how they can use digital verification services to meet these requirements, they can be translated into additional rules that providers can certify against as part of the trust framework certification scheme. This set of additional certifiable rules is known as a supplementary code.  For further details visit GOV.UK.

MyIdentity is in the FCA Regulatory Sandbox.

The Government is giving statutory footing to three innovative uses of data, including:

  • establishing Digital Verification Services, which make people’s everyday lives easier through innovative and secure technology. These measures support the creation and adoption of secure and trusted digital identity products and services from certified providers to help with things like moving house, pre-employment checks, and buying age restricted goods and services.

The Data Protection & Digital Information Bill is one of a number of legislative initiatives presented in the King’s Speech in July 2024, which outlined Government plans.