Ok, I'm inspired as a marketer in identity verification to change my way of thinking about and presenting the user experience: 'the good kind of friction...internet seatbelt...and OMG...bots with digital identities.'
Dave- As you will recall fully 27 years ago we started out via the (regulated) Private Sector on the Digital Identity journey, and here 2025 you, rightly, point out that the lack of such infrastructure, (not just at national level) remains as a gaping hole in the armoury of cyberwarfare that undoubtedly will dominate any future global conflict (Heaven forbid it were to happen) .
However the question remains who should do it, and how?
In todays world, nation states esp an organisation like the British Government, does not manufacture conventional arms itself...it enables/it purchases its arsenal of arms substantially from private sector entities who are generally global in their customer base, and expert in the development of their products..
By the same logic, we need to revisit what we built a quarter century ago . Would you ask Whitehall to provide a sophisticated risk-managed conventional weapons system....? Probably not....... Go to those who specialise in it..... BW JohnB
I'm old school John, I still think that the banks, not the government, should play the leading role here. They've had BankID in Scandinavia for years and we are still sending PDFs of gas bills.
Ok, I'm inspired as a marketer in identity verification to change my way of thinking about and presenting the user experience: 'the good kind of friction...internet seatbelt...and OMG...bots with digital identities.'
Dave- As you will recall fully 27 years ago we started out via the (regulated) Private Sector on the Digital Identity journey, and here 2025 you, rightly, point out that the lack of such infrastructure, (not just at national level) remains as a gaping hole in the armoury of cyberwarfare that undoubtedly will dominate any future global conflict (Heaven forbid it were to happen) .
However the question remains who should do it, and how?
In todays world, nation states esp an organisation like the British Government, does not manufacture conventional arms itself...it enables/it purchases its arsenal of arms substantially from private sector entities who are generally global in their customer base, and expert in the development of their products..
By the same logic, we need to revisit what we built a quarter century ago . Would you ask Whitehall to provide a sophisticated risk-managed conventional weapons system....? Probably not....... Go to those who specialise in it..... BW JohnB
I'm old school John, I still think that the banks, not the government, should play the leading role here. They've had BankID in Scandinavia for years and we are still sending PDFs of gas bills.