Deloitte Unveils ‘Agile Identity’

In an article published in June’s edition of Deloitte Insights ¹, the consultancy firm sets out a new vision of identity and claims that the future of government rests on the future of identity.

Following the award of two UK contracts to Deloitte (February 2022 for £4.8 million and April for £9 million) to build the digital ID app ‘One Login’ to replace the now defunct Gov.UK Verify, the consultancy firm describes three different approaches to citizen identity management in the article titled ‘The future of government rests on the future of identity’.

In the centralised approach, one party, such as a government or agency, is an identity provider that transfers citizen attributes to relying parties. The advantages of this approach are that they allow more direct control for governments and accountability to citizens. The disadvantages are that they can be difficult to create (especially for large, federally organised nations), difficult to administer given the large volumes of personally identifiable information (PII) collected, and difficult to upgrade technologically when needed.