UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on

Legacy government systems would have posed a significant barrier to the UK's abandoned national digital ID scheme, according to the country's spending watchdog. The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a review of the digital identity landscape and the lessons that should inform any future attempt to introduce a government-wide system. Drawing on its previous work on digital transformation, data, and identity, as well as evidence from international audit bodies, the NAO emphasized that digital identity is not a single product or technology. Instead, it encompasses services, credentials, standards, providers, and governance arrangements across the public and private sectors. Earlier this year, newly appointed Prime Minister Andy...

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