Unleashing the potential of Verified Attributes

What is the one, single thing the UK Government could do to boost the operation and performance of the digital economy? In this blog, we explore the massive untapped potential of Verified Attributes.

What is a verified…

Making Data Portability Work

Article 20 of the new General Data Protection Regulations creates a new right for citizens: the right to data portability. Rarely does one small clause in a massive piece of legislation strike at the very heart of the way the economy works, but this does.

Cracking the problem of consent

Rightly or wrongly, consent — what it looks like, and how it works — lies at the heart of today’s personal data landscape. From May 2018, Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulations will tighten the rules surrounding consent. From then on, ‘consent’ will only be valid…

The curse of ‘monetisation’

What’s the biggest obstacle to our society’s ability to unleash the full personal, social and economic potential of personal data?

In our experience, one of the prime candidates has to be the quest for ‘monetisation’. This isn’t just about the greed of…

Future of Identity and getting there

We were recently interviewed by an organisation researching trends in identity. In this blog we publish the questions they asked, and the answers we gave.

The quest for truly user centric services

When it comes to commissioning public services we’ve got a problem. Two problems, in fact.

The first problem is the current focus on user needs. How, you might ask, could focusing on user needs possibly be a problem?’ At first…

The Challenge of Online Identity: First things First!

Over the last 15 years, Governments around the world including the UK, along with many private sector firms, have poured huge amounts of time and money into attempts to solve the problem of online identity assurance (that is, making sure…

Design principles for a new data infrastructure

So far in this series, we have explained 1) that the biggest, most important issue about personal data is the one least talked about: the structural flaw at the heart of our system whereby individuals cannot gather, store or use their data for…