<div dir="ltr"><div>I just got the news that the Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) bill that <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">includes digital identity measures <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal">was introduced to the UK Parliament</span>.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2023-03-08/hcws617" target="_blank">Secretary of State's statement</a> </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3430" target="_blank">the details about the bill</a> </span></li></ul></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part 2 of the bill secures the reliability of digital verification services. These deliver on the government's commitment to making digital identities as trusted and secure as physical documents that are currently widely accepted as evidence of identity so that people and businesses can make the most of new technologies with confidence and peace of mind.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">According to the email I got, the digital identity measures in the revised data bill are unchanged from last summer. They </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">require the Secretary of State to publish a trust framework of rules and establish a register of certified digital verification service providers so that users can have the confidence that organisations have been independently assessed as compliant with the rules; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">enable the Secretary of State to exercise governance functions in relation to the register. In practice, these functions will be undertaken by the Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, initially integrated within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; and</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">enable public authorities to disclose information to registered organisations providing trust-marked services for the purposes of identity or eligibility verification.</span></p></li></ul><font color="#888888"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></font></font></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Nat Sakimura<div><br></div></div></div></div>