What is the current and future prevalence of identity theft in facilitating/enabling fraud? How much of the UK’s personal data is available online in a format that is accessible at scale for use by fraudsters?

Related UKRI funded projects

• “Identity Protect” development of a digital-platform to tackle the UK’s multi-billion pound losses from identity-fraud - protecting individual citizens from trauma, protecting businesses from billion pound losses, protecting society from organised-crime

  Approximately 75% of UK adults use online banking and the value of UK website retail-sales is over £300Bn. Key to enabling UK productivity is reducing the growth in online crime. Identity fraud is growing, hundreds...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project specifically addresses the prevalence of identity theft and fraud in the UK, providing solutions and statistics.

• A user-centric device-agnostic self-sovereign identity wallet for fraud prevention

  EarthID is a UK-based cybersecurity, fintech and Web3.0 focussed SME, led by a female co-founder/CEO and both co-founders of Indian ethnicity. The core project team comprises of Priya Guliani (Oxford/MIT-certified IT/blo...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project offers a user-centric identity wallet for fraud prevention and addresses the current statistics on identity fraud in the UK.

• Privacy Value Networks

  Identity and privacy have recently rarely been out of the headlines. Government has justified the need to identify citizens and track behaviour or security reasons, and promoted data sharing with the promise of the benef...

  Funded by: EPSRC

  Why might this be relevant?

  While the project focuses on privacy and data value, it does not fully address the prevalence of identity theft and fraud in the UK.

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