Government Digital Strategy, published in November 2012. You may have read in earlier posts that the strategy set out 14 actions for departments to respond to. It was followed up in December 2012 by departmental digital strategies, where each department set out their own detailed plans and commitments on how they would transform and improve their services to meet user needs better and achieve savings. An ambitious agenda. So...

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As with most of our releases and work at the Government Digital Service, we release our work early for review and comment. Recently the Identity Assurance Programme Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group, a working group of the main board, issued the following principles for discussion. Although not yet ratified by the full board, these principles clearly set out the main thrusts of user control and transparency which underpin the entire programme. These principles have been continually discussed and reviewed with over a dozen privacy and consumer groups since autumn 2011, including No2id, Privacy International, Which?, London School of Economics, Oxford Internet Institute and Big Brother Watch. We will continue to work with these groups to ensure that user needs are put first as we re-create a digital relationship between users and Government services. We would love your feedback via comments, or to Nick.Kalisperas@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk 1. The User Control Principle Identity assurance activities can only take place if I consent or approve them. An Identity Assurance Provider or Service Provider must ensure any collection, use or disclosure of IA data in, or from, an Identity Assurance Service is...

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