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. By designing the trust framework certification regime as a ‘modular’ process, MyIdentity has been able to work with the industry to include these additional rules.

MyIdentity is an identity trust scheme, 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 MyIdentity (scheme) supplementary code is where a group of organisations come together and create additional rules on top of those in the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.  Participating IDSPs can be certified against these additional rules and these rules will be codified as a ‘spanning set’ within the DSIT Certification Schemes.

The Government has unveiled an upcoming landmark identity verification services bill designed to improve digital identity. This transformative legislation will empower certified identity providers to deliver better digital identity products and services, ensuring enhanced security and convenience for all people.

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 Digital Information and Smart Data Bill is one of 39 legislative initiatives presented in the King’s Speech in July 2024, which outline plans for the Government during the new parliamentary year.