Digital identity • Page 2
Could digital identity systems solve the “gender wars”? We explore how well-designed systems could meet requirements for safeguarding, science, sport and safety, allowing people to keep their sex private when it doesn’t matter but making sure that when it does matter, that data is accurate.
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Keep the safeguards in the Data Bill
The government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill has finished in the House of Lords and is now moving to...
7th February 2025
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Digital identities: we have to get this right
On 21st January, Lord Patrick Vallance KCB, the Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, told the House...
22nd January 2025
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Data (Use and Access) Bill: Lords report stage – Parliamentary briefing
The government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 23rd October 2024. Report...
21st January 2025
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Sex and the Data Bill – summary report
The government’s new trust framework for digital verification services has a critical flaw: government data itself is not trustworthy...
6th December 2024
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The government’s Data Bill: sleepwalking into self-ID?
The first day of the committee stage of Parliamentary scrutiny in the House of Lords on the government’s Data...
5th December 2024
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There’s still a fatal flaw in the government’s digital trust framework
The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes last week published the latest version of the UK digital identity and...
2nd December 2024
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A new scandal on the horizon?
Yesterday the Data (Use and Access) Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords. Lord Arbuthnot of...
20th November 2024
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Sex and the Data Bill – briefing for Parliamentarians
The second reading of the Data (Use and Access) Bill in the House of Lords is on Tuesday 19th...
18th November 2024
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The Data Bill will fail if the government can’t be clear about sex
The Data Use and Access Bill is being debated in the House of Lords on Tuesday 19th November. The...
18th November 2024
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Letter to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, October 2024
We wrote to Peter Kyle MP on 25th October 2024 to express our enthusiasm about the new Data (Use...
25th October 2024
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Digital identity verification can end the gender wars
The government has unveiled its new Data Bill, which it says will unlock the power of data to grow...
25th October 2024
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Getting “sex” right in digital verification services
The UK government is developing a system for digital verification services (DVSs). The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill...
17th April 2024
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Digital verification services
– how the government can solve the problem about sex (or else sleepwalk into chaos)
17th April 2024
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Data matters
Advice on the questions you should ask when collecting personal data on sex and transgender identity. See also our
19th October 2023
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A radically simpler system than gender self-ID
Critics of the Gender Recognition Act who call for gender self-identification say the current system is too much of...
21st February 2022
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Sex and digital identities
How digital identities can solve the problem with sex and gender identity – and how getting it wrong will...
14th February 2022
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Sex, gender and medical data: a way forward
Susan Bewley, Margaret McCartney, Catherine Meads and Amy Rogers published an article in the British Medical Journal...
23rd March 2021
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NHS: let’s talk about sex
This tweet by Emma Parnell, Lead Service Designer at NHS Digital, and the associated Medium post ‘Let’s Talk About...
20th March 2021