Citizens to Be Identified by Their iPhones?
There are many government web sites which citizens can access but currently they have to use separate and different keys for each site. The government is looking at technology which will make accessing the sites more secure and easy for an individual.
Directgov chief technology officer David Matthewman, while talking about various authentication methods, said, ‘It could be biometric fingerprints in the long term… In the short term, it could be an applet on an iPhone, it could be a smartcard,’ putting forward the idea that citizen could perhaps use their iPhones to identify themselves.
Whatever form of authentication is eventually used, it has to be such that it can be used universally for all government sites and it should work both ways – the citizen should be safe and the government, too, should be assured that it is the right person who is accessing the site and not some criminal or fraud which is being carried out.
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) said that it intends to launch an £8m trusted services competition in March, where technology companies will compete with the tokens or keys they have devised.
Via: ZdNet
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