Thursday 4 October 2012

Twitter and Facebook to be used for benefit applications

The government will announce plans later this month to allow people to use social networking sites to access public services.

Under the Cabinet Office scheme people wanting to apply for services ranging from benefits and tax credits to passports will be able to access them using their logins for websites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Once they have logged on via computer or mobile phone, the social networking site will send an email confirming their identity to the relevant government agency, the Cabinet Office said.

Full Article on Guardian Media

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