Your Identity, Your View: Seeing and Managing How It's Used
Control over your identity depends on being able to see it. TRIDENT gives citizens their own place to review what they hold, what is enabled, and how it has been used.
Ask yourself a simple question about any account you hold today: which organisations have your identity details, and when did they last use them?
For most people the honest answer is that there is no way to know. Not because anything is hidden, but because the information lives in a dozen unconnected places and no single one of them can show you the whole picture.
One national identity changes what is possible here, because for the first time there is somewhere the picture can exist.
A place that is yours
Alongside the ways of using your identity, TRIDENT provides citizens with their own environment: a private space for the identity itself rather than for any one service.
Its purpose isn't to complete transactions. It's to let you see and manage what belongs to you.
What you can see
Which identity channels you have enabled, and which you don't. Which credentials you hold, who issued them, and whether they are current. And a record of activity associated with your identity, so that use is something you can review rather than something you assume.
Visibility is what makes control real. A right to manage something you cannot see is not much of a right.
What you can manage
The channels you use are yours to enable. If you don't want a mobile channel, you don't have to activate one. If a device is replaced, that can be reflected.
Credentials work the same way. They are held by you, and what you do with them, and when you present them, is your decision.
Why one identity makes this possible at all
This is the part worth pausing on.
When your identity is spread across unrelated accounts, no single view of it can exist. Nobody is concealing anything. There is simply nowhere for the whole picture to be assembled, and no way for you to ask.
A common identity creates that vantage point. The same design that lets one identity work across many services is what allows you to look across them.
Growing as the ecosystem grows
What you can see here reflects what is connected. As more services join, more of your interactions become visible in one place, and the picture becomes more complete.
The direction is consistent: not more information gathered about you, but more of what already concerns you made visible to you.
Curious about how consent works?
The article Share What Is Needed explains how identity details are shared and what you approve.