Google announced new features for Google Wallet aimed at providing users with secure and convenient ways to prove their age and identity directly from their phones.

Residents in the United Kingdom will soon be able to create digital ID passes using their U.K. passports and store them in Google Wallet. At launch, Google is partnering with the Rail Delivery Group to allow travellers to use these digital IDs to verify eligibility for select Railcards on its retail platform, railcard.co.uk.

Google is also in discussions with the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to certify its digital IDs under the country’s digital identity trust framework. If successful, this could pave the way for digital ID use in purchasing alcohol and other regulated services.

In the United States, digital ID support is expanding to Arkansas, Montana, Puerto Rico, and West Virginia. Additionally, residents in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, and New Mexico will be able to use their mobile IDs for more streamlined experiences at Department of Motor Vehicle offices.

With the federal REAL ID deadline approaching on May 7, 2025, users can now use a digital ID created from a U.S. passport at TSA checkpoints for domestic travel at supported airports—although digital IDs based on U.K. passports are not yet accepted by TSA. Google emphasizes that digital ID passes do not replace physical IDs, which should still be carried when needed.

New partnerships are set to broaden the utility of digital IDs. Users will soon be able to recover Amazon accounts, access online health services through CVS and MyChart by Epic, and verify profiles on platforms like Uber using Google Wallet.

To address privacy concerns around age verification, Google is integrating Zero Knowledge Proof technology into Google Wallet. This cryptographic method verifies age without revealing personal identity details, enabling fast and private age checks across devices, apps, and websites. Bumble will be among the first partners to adopt ZKP-based age verification. Google plans to open source its ZKP implementation for broader industry use.

Google Wallet is expanding its global reach, rolling out to 50 more countries. This update will allow users in more regions to view and manage digital passes, even in areas where tap-to-pay services are not yet supported.

These developments reflect Google’s ongoing commitment to building secure, privacy-forward digital identity tools for a rapidly digitizing world.

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Children getting to grips with important money management skills will have to get used to the reliance today on contactless wallet payments, as well as traditional methods. PowerKids App delivers the first biometric digital wallet aimed at children.

Power Dynamic Technology, a pioneering tech company from Romania behind the launch of the PowerKids App, has introduced a pioneering approach to financial literacy, with each child’s unique facial recognition to complete transactions. 

This seamless technology “empowers kids to experience real-world financial transactions in a secure and controlled environment”, the announcement read. 

Parents can set up each child account and generate unique QR codes, enabling them to supervise spending, set transaction limits, and guide their children’s first financial decisions.

The PowerKids App is now available for download on European app stores, supporting children to develop healthy money habits.

“Our mission is to provide families with tools that not only simplify financial transactions but also educate and empower the next generation. With PowerKids, we’re taking a significant step towards that goal,” said a spokesperson from Power Dynamic Technology.​

PowerKids is part of the SecureID Biometric Digital Wallet platform, aligning with Europe’s digital transformation initiatives for secure and interoperable identification online. PowerKids App will empower individuals with a digital identity recognised across all EU member states.​

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It is crunch time for platforms deemed to have the biggest following among young users. Ofcom, the regulator, has powers to enforce jurisdictions against gaming sites, social media platforms and search services in the age of online safety. By July, robust verification measures will be enforced that meet the accreditation standards, preventing authentication that allows anyone to self assert their permissions. Tech groups will have to complete an assessment of the risk their service poses to children or face a fine up to £18mn.

The code of practice unveiled by Ofcom this week outlines accountability measures to target the dangerous prevalence of adult content on platforms such as X and Meta. Ofcom has said the industry will have to seriously adjust to the expectations, whilst the reality will mean making “far-reaching changes” to try to reconfigure advanced algorithms serving harmful content onto children’s social media feeds. 

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Alleged flaws with GOV.UK’s One Login system have surfaced three years after it became operational.

The Government Digital Service has lauded the system for successfully verifying 1.8 million people’s identities since August 2023, but now a whistle blower from GDS has broken their silence highlighting concerns raised around the shortcomings of the system’s data protection. The problems have been confirmed through an internal investigation by GDS’s Chief Information Security Officer.

The employee, who works in information security, remains unnamed in the expose article, claiming they wrote to an MP after inaction to investigate the potential problems. An MP addressed the claims with the Cabinet Office, however, the GDS did not disclose its knowledge about prior warnings. 

The whistle blower claims the potential problems around the information security of One Login – reported to GDS executives in July 2022 – are yet to be resolved.

One Login is the government’s interoperable onboarding system, which will underpin the GOV.UK digital wallet later this year. 

A spokesperson for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology confirmed they are fully compliant with the UK data protection and privacy laws – including UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. 

He claims a backlog of concerns with the system including a lack of security personnel providing effective cyber security management, no records of security requirements or risk assessments carried out.

Natalie Jones, GDS Director of Digital Identity, commented on useful “observations” raised in the whistle blower report. However, in responding correspondence, GDS chief executive Tom Read argued that the function of information assurance (IA) teams within GDS, providing secondary review and manual processes, were dissolved, allowing for automated security alerts. “Integrated engineering/security (dev/sec/ops) has been best practice for some years”, ComputerWeekly.com reported. The internal IA team disbanded in October 2023 and merged with the Information Security team.  

Concerns raised about One Login date back to November 2022, according to ComputerWeekly.com.

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A Jupiter Study confirms the upturn of digital identity usership as the UK government next prioritises issuing ID cards and digital wallets for citizens. UK residents currently using digital identity apps to verify themselves and log into services are predicted to rise from 6.9 million in 2025 to 25.5 million in 2029.

The state-issued wallet is planned to boost identity verification technology harnessed by the public sector, gaining user trust. It opens up a bill of government documents that will be made available by the end of 2027 including Veteran Cards and DBS checks that all benefit the public user.

The GOV.UK app is crucially underpinned by the security protections of GOV.UK One Login which has been operational for 3 years.

Offering a government-authenticated and standardised approach to digital identity, over 45% of the UK adult population are forecast to use the app by 2029. Overall adoption of digital identities will increase from the public sector whilst the report quantifies a decrease in popularity of third-party verification solutions, perhaps because of the strong regulation around developing the government app.

The app technology is fully aligned with the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework and third-party identity verification vendors can also seek accreditation through the framework. Both regulated platforms offer an interoperable, standardised approach streamlining access to government services. Hence, the GOV.UK app will drive adoption of digital identities significantly over third-party providers.

Third-party apps will grow by just 9% between 2025 and 2029 as a result of the GOV.UK app becoming a primary method of verifying an individual’s information, both remotely and in-person. 

The report emphasises that private apps could make more headway by “re-strategising” and “advertising their verification services for onboarding onto the GOV.UK app”, or retain their position within the digital identity ecosystem by seeking certification against the government’s trust framework. 

The combination of government certification and third-party verification technologies are critical to satisfying citizens’ concerns around privacy, which have long plagued digital identity growth and adoption.

View the market research from Jupiter: https://www.juniperresearch.com/research/fintech-payments/identity/digital-id-verification-in-the-uk-market/

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The UN body, ICAO, has proposed introducing a new “Digital Travel Credential” that would shake-up the travel rulebook going back 50 years. The travel sector could be nearing the end of its co-dependency on passports for security in 3 years, reports state. 

They envision a totally simplified travel procedure mobilised through the DTC, which becomes a digital version of the travel document, allowing passengers to upload and verify their passport information on their mobile phones.

Currently, the presence of facial recognition systems at security lanes can match the traveller to their passport and digital record. The technology will need to be upgraded to scan a passenger’s data stored in a mobile device against their face. 

The key feature of the ICAO DTC is that “authorities can verify a digital representation of the passport data before the traveller’s arrival and confirm the data’s integrity and authenticity”, stated in the ‘High Level Guidance: Explaining The ICAO Digital Travel Credentials’ paper, in June 2024.

The ICAO initiative will upend some routine procedures like checking-in to get your boarding pass. Passengers will download a “journey pass” instead when booking their flights, which will automatically update their information. Facial scans will be conducted at bag drop-off points for passengers with hold luggage or at pre-boarding gates for those with hand luggage, and airlines will only be alerted that passengers can fly once these procedures are followed at the airport. 

Several digital travel credential projects are ongoing carrying out testing for distinct scenarios via Type 1, 2 or 3 of the Travel Credential. Although the DTC-1 pilot is going smoothly and is viable, DTC Types 2 and 3 – which will not require a physical book – may not be ready for some time. 

Becoming available as of 2030, the European Commission will also deliver an application based around their proposed framework for Digital Travel Credentials and the pilot programme conducted by KLM Airlines at the Commission’s request. The pilot of DTC-1 in the Netherlands streamlined faster boarding and border crossing at Schiphol Airport.

Additionally, Thales has been piloting the first Digital Travel Credential Type 2 with the ODYSSEUS project. 

There are criteria for a Digital Travel Credential needed across different scenarios to create the efficiencies for the aviation industry and border management, which will likely delay ICAO’s DTC. Finland’s initial ICAO pilot expedited border processing times in less than 8 seconds in comparison with the 25 second processing time of automated border kiosks. 

Many travel procedures and systems installed have not changed in 50 years, according to an Executive at Amadeus. 

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The Queensland Government has officially transitioned from the QGov identity system to a new, more advanced platform known as the Queensland Digital Identity (QDI).

As of the changeover, all users who previously accessed Queensland Government online services via a QGov account will now be required to use a QDI. The new system is designed to meet the highest national standards in digital identity management, incorporating cutting-edge security protocols and industry best practices.

“The QDI is a modern, robust and innovative solution that safeguards personal data while providing a seamless user experience,” the government website said.

Depending on a user’s prior setup, some QGov accounts may have been automatically converted into a QDI. However, when accessing services for the first time post-transition, individuals may be prompted to re-verify their identity using official government-issued credentials, such as a driver licence or passport. This step is part of a broader effort to secure each digital identity and ensure it meets service-specific access requirements.

The transition process has placed a strong emphasis on data privacy and information protection. Notably, any credentials used to verify QGov accounts in the past were not stored in the old system. Under the new framework, only the minimum required personal data is retained, in full compliance with national privacy standards.

For users who already created a QDI via the Digital Licence App, their credentials may already be linked. In these cases, they may encounter a message indicating that their identification documents have already been used – a sign that their QDI is already active.

In some scenarios, users may be asked to re-verify personal documents to maintain consistency and integrity across all digital identities. This is a safeguard to ensure every Queenslander’s digital identity is properly authenticated and secure.

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With more “false positive” cyber attacks attributed to inaccuracies of cybersecurity software, Lloyds has patented its own AI advanced algorithm to spot genuine threats. 

The Global Correlation Engine (GCE), developed by Lloyds Banking Group, addresses high quality cybersecurity across many businesses to protect customers. Sometimes vendor solutions can disappoint in being able to detect accurate fraud in real-time. 

The GCE is refined cybersecurity software, designed to identify and alert businesses to potential attacks with precision. This means that alerts are not misidentified as being malicious – known as ‘false positives’. Lloyds is working to boost the AI capabilities in the GCE further, leveraging multiple layers of algorithms.

Since Lloyds Banking implemented the GCE, investigations of false positives have significantly reduced, whilst minimising the risk of missing genuine attacks. 

The solution has been awarded a patent in the UK and US, issued by the Intellectual Property Office for a new methodology, which uses intelligent algorithms to analyse cybersecurity alerts and determine which alerts could be genuine threats. Across the Group, more emphasis can be placed on resources to investigate and tackle genuine cyber threats.

The GCE works by storing and analysing alerts from across different cybersecurity technologies to identify common attributes, trends and potential connections between different alerts. 

By cross-referencing this information against the components and common signs of a cyber-attack, the GCE accurately assesses and identifies cyber threats with a dynamic approach, identifying both immediate and longer-term threats with a high degree of accuracy.

The technology and new patented applications have the potential beyond traditional cyber-attacks to combat e-crime, supply chain fraud, cyber-enabled fraud and more.

Matt Rowe, Chief Security Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, said: “Our Global Correlation Engine is an exciting innovation that will allow us to identify genuine threats more quickly and efficiently, ensuring customers are protected. We’re working to develop the Engine further, using artificial intelligence to supercharge its capabilities. This innovation, developed by our world-class cyber experts, demonstrates our commitment to advancing cybersecurity and protecting our customers with cutting-edge technology.”

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Digital verification infrastructure is critical to invest in and deploy or the UK’s position as a prosperous digital and financial hub looks to be overtaken. Delays to install a digital verification system that is government approved and aligned with the appropriate framework could negate the immediate benefits for the economy.

Rather than deliver the reduction in millions lost to fraud and optimise all services, the UK will lose billions that would be generated or saved by implementing the system. 

Enterprises and customers will be more exposed to fraud as AI advances without a digital verifications system planned to roll out en masse. The warning came from a study released by EY and the City of London Corporation. The EU and US have national digital ID frameworks; the UK has the Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework and Data Bill, however, the government is urged to implement a new regulation and digital ID system as soon as possible or risk falling behind. 

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As online financial services are increasingly affected by fraud, evolving digital strategy beyond the fraudsters’ advancing capabilities to attack verification systems is the modern challenge whilst striking a good customer experience. Union Bank’s mobile banking platform was reviewed for ways to improve its functionality for a wide range of banking services that customers have come to expect from online consumerism, from instant transactions and account opening to fast QR payments and bill payments. 

Online is now the preferred and normal interaction we have with our bank, but fraud can quickly take financial services offline. Several new app features include video KYC processes to open accounts with less effort. Communication with the bank offline does not have to be fragmented as call-back requests for assistance are readily available. 

Manisha Fernando, Vice President, Digital Banking, said the significant app upgrade enables the bank to penetrate target markets of “affluent customer segments” and particularly GenZ customers to set up and manage their first bank accounts digitally, as they are used to doing. However, digital transformation matters to all their customers as well as to onboarding new customers. 

The app offers a secure user experience with biometrics and controls and will continue being adaptable to their customers’ needs and to the market conditions. 

“The bank continues to transform the lives of our customers through digital innovations and service excellence and providing the best digital banking experience is a top priority”. 

Union Bank is the first bank to be recognised with the ISO 27001:2022 certification and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0 for maintaining the highest standards of data security.

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The digital verification system at the “heart of national security” and private and public sectors in South Africa has received a significant revamp, the South African government Department of Home Affairs announced. Investing in a “comprehensive” system upgrade refines faster ID verification processes and showcases what is possible for businesses in the financial sector with verifying identities using biometric solutions like fingerprints and facial recognition against the National Population Register. 

A range of governmental departments have onboarded the system protecting their public services, but in recent years its performance has been plagued by streamlining issues and inefficiencies causing up to 50% false positive matches. It is clear the current level upgrade needs to be reviewed by the government to mitigate 24 hour delays in the system responding. When responses are received, they are often littered with errors and require slower manual verification instead. 

Testing yesterday revealed the failure rate had been mitigated to below 1% enabling faster and accurate detection. The Department of Home Affairs said they were ready to roll out the “upgraded verification service to all our valued clients across the public and private sectors” to markedly enhance service delivery. There are many reasons why a client may need to verify their identity to open a bank account, access benefits or obtain a grant, for instance. 

The upgrade, completed for the first time since the system launched, is also “immensely important” to growing the private economy and ensuring banks, financial services, and insurance companies are empowered to offer the best-in-class verification. 

The home affairs department is the custodian of identity, civil status and migration of citizens and its digital verification system provides a link between a service provider and the DHA’s national population register.

The Ministers of Home Affairs and Finance outlined new maintenance fees for private companies using the vastly more capable verification service, which will increase for the first time in over a decade from 1 April 2025. Government users will remain exempt from contributing to the service costs as the balance to invest in the National Population Register will not negatively affect public finances.

Minister Schreiber concluded: “This investment in our population register is not only overdue, but also important for delivering on the vision for digital ID, as outlined by President Cyril Ramaphosa during the State of the Nation Address, as a secure and efficient population register forms the cornerstone of digital ID. The launch of the reformed verification system is further proof of the progress that Home Affairs is making on our journey of digital transformation to deliver dignity for all.”  

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An Interview with Kabir Maiga and Zachary Klares about the NFID Foundation

What is the core idea behind NFID, and why is it significant?

By the end of 2025, it’s expected that around 80 million Europeans will have digital IDs based on new global standards, with identity wallets containing verifiable digital identities. In the U.S., 17 states are moving toward similar standards. This creates a substantial opportunity in the access control industry, where identity is foundational.

Currently, access control is account-based, using personal data to create accounts rather than verifiable identities. Equipping 80 million people equipped with verifiable digital credentials opens up endless possibilities. Users could prove their identity to service providers in various scenarios—whether checking into a hotel, interacting with a law enforcement officer, or verifying age at a bar.

NFID can enable remote management of access to both physical and digital spaces, ensuring accuracy and reliability in identity verification and access rights.

Why was the NFID Foundation established? Couldn’t this be just an open technology?

Interoperability is a key reason for the NFID Foundation’s existence. For decentralized ID to work across states, countries, and products, it must be universal. Companies within the foundation collaborate on standards, ensuring that the technology is interoperable and universally applicable. This joint development fosters industry-wide adoption.

Additionally, security requires a foundational layer of trust for systems to recognize and validate credentials. The NFID Foundation builds this trust ecosystem, offering a space for members to influence design and governance.

The foundation also serves an educational role, keeping the industry informed on new trends and standards. When a new standard is widely adopted, millions of users join almost immediately. Industry players unprepared for this shift would have a lot of ground to cover, and the NFID Foundation helps ensure everyone is ready.

Is NFID technology only relevant for use cases like physical access control?

While NFID is primarily focused on physical access control, its applications extend to the digital world. NFID aims to make identity verification easy not only online but also in embedded devices. Many existing standards focus on web-based implementations, neglecting devices with limited computational power, such as embedded systems. The NFID Foundation addresses this by creating standards that cater to both realms.

NFID standards describe how to use digital identity for physical access, and our contributions to the broader identity community support both physical and digital access needs. While the technical means of presenting an SSI-based credential differ between a door and a website, the core identity remains consistent.

Will NFID expand into the digital world?

NFID will naturally progress from physical to digital applications, like Digital ID. The technology could seamlessly grant access to digital realms—the metaverse, banking accounts, and more. While implementation may vary, it’s all about adapting to each context.

If we look back, physical access began with keys and cards. Today, we use phones to access both physical and digital systems. We are evolving toward a unique, universal ID for every global citizen.

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Cybersecurity is a fascinating industry which needs to inspire the next generation to embark on fulfilling careers. With a male majority in the workforce, there is still a way to go to diversify people in the sector from different backgrounds.

The support for this aim has been led by tech giant IBM to encourage skills and development which builds the future digital economic growth, whilst the government is equally resourceful on how it plans to safeguard online services. 

IBM has partnered with the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, and the National Cyber Security Centre to provide the online platform for the CyberFirst Girls competition, open to girls between the ages of 12 and 13 in the UK. 

The cybersecurity programme is available for schools nationwide to allow students to participate in a series of cyber challenges from cryptography to artificial intelligence, which is affecting the world around them everyday. 

Some of the challenges of diversifying the sector were restated by Shruti Kulkarni, Information Security Architect, at Elexon who participated in our Transformative Women interviews. 

Women currently account for just 17% of the cybersecurity workforce and it is partly the responsibility of the sector to offer a balanced and interesting environment, and individuals themselves.

Minister for Cyber Security Feryal Clark recently spoke out on the “need to build a diverse workforce which is reflective of every community in the country” to tackle online threats.

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The Security Industry Authority, which is sponsored by the Home Office, has set high expectations for “efficient, secure, and accessible” verification processes when it incorporates the Gov.UK One Login system. 

One Login has successfully been rolled out to digitalise and automate verification across many government services. The public regulator in the private security industry will acquire the capabilities of One Login to manage an increasing volume of applications currently outsourced to other parties. 

As well as reducing administrative activities, such as data entry, the bolstered system will also support identification documents held by the SIA’s international applicants. The verification of licenses can be challenging for inspectors and time-consuming by doing the current processes. The review of integrating One Login with SIA’s STeP and customer support systems determined if customer service could be simplified and more efficient to maintain high standards of checks with “maintaining the integrity of licensing”. 

Heather Baily, chair of the SIA, and Michelle Russell, chief executive of the SIA, said: “The focus of this review was efficiency, and the review confirms the SIA has challenged itself to increase efficiency to contain the cost of its operations.

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More than 100,000 tech companies scoped by the Online Safety Act are facing imminent calls to remove harmful content relating to suicide, pornography or child sexual abuse from their platforms.

Social media companies, which dominate the internet use of children and young people, have chosen to treat safety measures as an afterthought, technology secretary, Peter Kyle said. However, media regulator Ofcom and the government are locked into constructive regulatory engagement with companies to enforce age assurance. 

The crackdown is “just the beginning” Kyle said. If companies do not comply with the safeguarding rules, they face huge fines and potential litigations. Companies could face an unwanted fine of up to £18m or 10% of their global revenue, which for big companies like Meta could equal billions of pounds. The act lists 130 “priority offences” that should be eradicated from platforms by increasing age verification systems. 

Ofcom’s Code of Conduct to prevent companies breaching the act outlines account management features for example, hiding children’s profiles and locations from users they do not know and implementing blocking tools.

Ofcom’s enforcement director Suzanne Cater said, “platforms must now act quickly to come into compliance with their legal duties, and our codes are designed to help them do that” by enforcing “hash matching” technology or reporting channels for organisations.

This comes after Ofcom’s announcement on Monday stated storage and filesharing services would be asked how they prevent paedophiles from distributing child sexual abuse material.

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The significant growth of the cyber security market represents a key economic opportunity for the UK. The sustained revenue growth of cyber security providers, who are buying in solutions from small-to-medium enterprises shows how intertwined the cyber ecosystem is to maximise security and digitalisation. This is also expected to return broader growth through the adoption of security standards and investments of all companies to implement cybersecurity for their system, including artificial intelligence. 

Government spending on cybersecurity contracts have increased in value and volume according to Trussell data in the report which identifies a steep upward curve from £262M spending in 2019 to £931M in 2024. The government’s own funding injection into the private and public sector boosts their statement on empowering cybersecurity as widely-available technologies like AI become commodities for every sector. 

Procurement supports the “health” of the cyber security sector to sell the best-in-class solutions to public sector buyers and allow the ecosystem to be fluid. The foundations are laid with improving public sector engagement with innovative cyber security start-ups.

There are currently 2,165 firms active within the UK providing cyber security products and services and 66 firms active in the UK that clearly offer cyber security for AI systems.

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Global Collaborations Engine is patented by Lloyds Banking Group, who have invested in the sophisticated intelligent tool that detects real fraudulent behaviour during onboarding and account transfers rather than false positives. False positive fraud is when legitimate payments are flagged as fraudulent within anti-money laundering systems or fraud prevention tools. Behaviour of account users will be more accurately monitored and detected if fraud is present with use of the engine poised to support businesses protect customers against cybersecurity threats. 

The tool analyses patterns of fraud detection in other cybersecurity technologies producing alerts which can be sometimes inaccurate. The monitoring tool has been introduced as banks invest in varying IAM technologies to validate accounts that are accessed by their legitimate customers. 

The monitoring system finds the medium of accurate detection capabilities employed by other systems. These common attributes compared to the classic components and signs of a cyber attack bolster the GCE to identify more genuine attacks.

More banks are analysing onboarding behaviour to spot tell-tale signs of fraud or just innocent activity. 

Lloyds said they have previously invested in traditional cybersecurity software that “lacks precision” for the bank, meaning that alerts can be triggered by activity misidentified as a threat.

The company is hoping to develop the system further with multiple algorithms and AI and even to detect different types of cyber crime – e-crime, supply chain fraud and cyber-enabled fraud.

The first patent for the GCE was awarded by the Intellectual Property Office.

“Our Global Correlation Engine is an exciting innovation that will allow us to identify genuine threats more quickly and efficiently, ensuring customers are protected,” said Matt Rowe, chief security officer at Lloyds Banking Group. “This innovation, developed by our world-class cyber experts, demonstrates our commitment to advancing cybersecurity and protecting our customers with cutting-edge technology.”

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Apple follows a stringent policy, strictly prohibiting governments from bypassing their encryption protocols. Their commitment to users’ data privacy was reaffirmed in light of the UK’s denied  request for user data access.

The fallout from this has triggered Apple to refuse the UK their highest premium data security services.

Advanced Data Protection through end-to-end encryption is only afforded to users, with even Apple executives excluded from having oversight of users’ data.

Now, Apple has taken the unprecedented decision to remove the UK’s rights to their toughest data protection tool. A figure on global users of Apple’s encryption is impossible to estimate due to their responsible. Once users opts-in and activates the tool, encryption is respected. 

Zoe Kleinman, Technology Editor at the BBC, said Apple was proving that it will not be “bossed around” and forced to share users’ data at the flippant request of governments, when the tech giant have always upheld privacy as a core value.

They are opposed, as they have always been, to creating “any backdoors” for encryption, instead  deciding to withdraw its crucial security tool from the UK. Other countries are unaffected but Apple is projecting a series warning amid international regulators trying to determine the conditions of their service. 

Apple will drop their agreement to grant Advanced Data Protection in the UK, resulting in some users losing data encryption in the iCloud. 

Encrypted data is permitted to be shared with law enforcement agencies in rare circumstances. Without acknowledging the UK’s clear breach, Apple commented it was “gravely disappointed” that the security service was no longer available for UK customers. 

“As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products, and we never will,” it continued. 

With current users’ access to be disabled soon, the latest development shows Apple will not give in to governments wanting control.

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Interview published by agendaNi

Harmonious data exchange across healthcare systems should unify “disparate data” from “diagnostic systems, public health records, laboratories, pharmacies, and hospitals”, whilst being verified between each party.

The healthcare sector is embracing digital systems and patient portals to make appointments, store data and inform patients about their medical journeys, but there is a lack of data interoperability – data which is easily available between the relevant departments – replaced by fragmented patient information. 

Dermot Boyle, Programme Manager at the Health and Social Care (HSC) Business Services Organisation (BSO) recently spoke about enhancing the interaction of data exchange for the Northern Ireland Digital Identity Service to offer streamlined communication between patient/provider or provider and provider. This can shape smoother delivery of healthcare services for everyone.

“The goal of NIDIS is simple yet ambitious: to link together every citizen’s healthcare record in Northern Ireland, creating a single, comprehensive view of each patient”.

He also argued that the quality of system patient care and being able to use unified patient records to identify current health problems was dependent on data interoperability. It is about binding data to a patient but also allowing essential data to be passed between relevant stakeholders involved in a patient’s care. The Irish and UK healthcare systems have depositories of our data across GPs, pharmacies, the hospital and health and social care trusts, which need to be married together whilst maintaining responsible, secure transactions of data. 

Central to this vision is the unique health identifier underpinning NIDIS, which Boyle says “facilitates seamless data sharing across primary, secondary, and community care settings”.

NIDIS is driven by an Oracle-based technology stack. “The master patient index (OHMPI) is the intelligence engine at the heart of the solution”.

“Oracle APEX will allow us to quickly pivot and build future applications quickly” to support the 24/7 call for the healthcare system.

 “This is not just about moving data around; it is about doing so with accuracy, speed and above all security”. COVID-19 has shown how difficult it is in reality to implement a population health index and efficiently operate data exchange when services were suddenly tested like never before.  He launched the NIDIS programme for data exchange during this time. 

He also said the programme needed to be upscaled with more demographic data, including gender and age-related data, telecommunication details, and specific postcodes to identify displaced populations needing healthcare services.

A digital identity for healthcare – agendaNi

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Identity verification is available to over 700 million LinkedIn members across 50 countries and expanding for the whole professional community by 2025.

ID verification underscores the trust of employers, recruiters and candidates using LinkedIn as an online job marketplace.

In this interview, Julie Madhusoodanan scopes the integration of ID processes into the popular platform, with AI automation also used to detect fake accounts. We discuss the three components of verification that LinkedIn employs to ensure different aspects of a member’s profile is authentic. 

She says “LinkedIn is always looking for new methods of verification”, through government-issued ID, a selfie or passkeys authenticated through their third-party services, Persona and CLEAR. Third party providers have sole access to user information.

Employing authentication, passwordless technology and a team of experts, LinkedIn successfully removes 99.6% of fake accounts in violation of their policies.

This interview asks:

• What regions has ID verification now expanded to? Will you meet the target of verifying 100 million people by 2025?
• Across LinkedIn’s categories of verification, do these methods give assurance of the real user, for example using selfie biometrics?
• Why have you chosen to partner with ID providers like Persona?
• Does LinkedIn have a problem with fake profiles?
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