Barclays, PayPal, Royal Mail and other companies have become providers of the GOV.UK Verify service.

The UK Cabinet Office has announced that 5 companies will become GOV.UK Verify service providers: Barclays, GB Group, Morpho, PayPal and Royal Mail. Before them, the service providers were Post Office, Experian, Digidentity and Verizon.

GOV.UK Verify works like this: citizens turn to any company that is the provider of this service, and then they confirm their identity. This procedure is carried out only once and takes no more than 15 minutes.

The head of the UK Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, said: “We make it easier for everyone to identify themselves without creating a single database and implementing special cards. Our identification scheme allows a citizen to independently choose a service provider to whom he wants to entrust the identification procedure. ”
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The Cabinet Secretariat insists that personal data are not stored centrally and are protected from possible use by companies.

The British government hopes that up to 80 percent of citizens will use GOV.UK Verify services.