Alex Wilson - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service

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Alex Wilson - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service and Kelvin Gan - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 15 September 2021 - GDS team, People and skills, Ways of working

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The Document Checking Service: trialling online passport validity checks

Benjamin Mortimer and Alex Wilson - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, 16 November 2020 - Digital engagement, GOV.UK One Login

For the first time, government is making real-time passport validity checks available to the private sector. The time-limited Document Checking Service (DCS) pilot has launched with a small group of participants in order to investigate how government can support the growing digital identity market.

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