Online identity: With the failure of Gov.UK Verify should Britain follow the Nordic model?

John Leonard
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UK should consider adopting Norway's BankID model, says Signicat's John Erik Setsaas

Digital identity presents an interesting conundrum. As more and more government, financial and other services move online - some abandoning the medium of paper altogether - we a need a simple, secu...

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