If you are a director of a company in England, you will recently have received a letter requiring you to register for this: https://www.gov.uk/using-your-gov-uk-one-login to be able to continue to do some things (e.g. mandatory for directors of companies). https://www.gov.uk/guidance/verifying-your-identity-for-companies-house
When i did this, the website said that you could do this at a post office
if you only had paper documentation (e.g. birth cerfiticates, paper passports etc)
and could use notaries to verify some of the documents.
However, it seems that this alternative may not have ever worked properly,
since now, if you look at the companies house web site guidance,
you have to use the digital service first to input your document details online..
So talking to someone else more recently , they said that this meant they had to step down as a company
director since they did not wish (or perhaps could not) use a digital id upload -
Is this legal? The government is effectively ruling out people from some things in
society if they cannot use the digital service - it appears that companies house forces this, as when you look at the link for verifying your id via the postoffice,
This seems inequitable at least, and possibly completely a massive security danger,
given the risk of leakage of photo id which many online organisations have so
publically experiences in recent years....
Also, the behavoural/liveness checks on the photo-id look naive - when many biometric systems are moving to multi-modal (e.g. face+movement, + speech / speaker recognition when saying random given phrase or face + movement + fingerprint or iris etc etc)
So is the uk government a) introducing digital id by stealth? and worse b)
introducing a centralised, insecure system and c) ignoring any requirements
for inclusivity? and d) without any public debate?
