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chsmith.bsky.social
Head of Trust Framework, OfDIA/DSIT Previously developed the first liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems (for a DPhil at @oiioxford.bsky.social and Balliol College) chsmith.co.uk (he/him)
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An apology to John Rawls. I couldn’t really understand why he was so obsessed with the importance of stability as a political value. But now I do.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

We’re so cooked y’all

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Mastercard be like "digital identity will become the master key to a connected world, unlocking access across platforms and borders without exposing personal data"

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Plus, if ever we needed more examples of why extreme care is needed when creating (digital) powers, even if you trust the incumbents… change can happen very fast

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Is this the US version of SpAds?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Got views on the latest trust framework we published in November? We’d really appreciate your feedback — more detailed the better! #digitalidentity The survey linked below is open to all and closes 3rd Feb, so there’s plenty of time to collate your thoughts

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

submitted 44 days ago • 2668 comments

#londoners! Anyone got thoughts on living in Fulham/Parson’s Green? We’re currently in Angel/Islington but have seen some properties that way. Wondering how it would differ living out west!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Really enjoying Richard Flanagan’s Question 7. Great writing! Weaves together such surprising threads

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

@miniaturerutter.bsky.social welcome! Nice to escape the other place…

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Dirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life

submitted 67 days ago • 64 comments

This new AI themed Wallace & Grommit is seriously tickling my pickle

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I made a gingerbread panopticon

submitted 70 days ago • 400 comments

“Snowball sampling” I feel seen

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Not everyday you get the Minister in the pub! Exciting to see the trust framework becoming more useful thanks to our adoption team’s hard work to remove blockers…

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Ten days left to apply for these two fantastic roles! Come and work with us at OfDIA/DSIT 🤩

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking a bit lately about how the increasing use of smart phones as payment and identity infrastructure will have implications for consumer expectations of battery life, and what that means for product dev.

submitted 82 days ago • 11 comments

Got the Monday scaries? Come and work with us at OfDIA! 🆔 Two roles available in fantastic teams

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Big fan of how the Radio 4 feature “Tweet of the Day” has outlasted tweets

submitted 371 days ago • 1 comment

🚨I’m hiring! Help me spread the news! Have you ever slipped your driver’s licence into your phone case and thought, ‘there must be a better way?’ Lost your passport on a night out? Do topics like AI deepfakes, biometrics, wallets, age verification and inclusion interest you?

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Damning. A choice quote: “The obscenity of this mass delusion is nauseating — a monolith to bad decision-making and the herd mentality of tech's most powerful people, as well as an outright attempt to manipulate the media into believing something was possible that wasn't.”

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calpaterson.com/porter.html

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“Analysis of the dataset revealed that the agency’s fraud prediction algorithm discriminated against women, migrants, low-income earners and people without a university education.” Every time… and it’s not like this stuff is a secret! www.goodreads.com/list/show/15...

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Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

submitted 98 days ago • 479 comments

This morning, l'm delighted to announce we've pre-released the much-anticipated gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework on GOV.UK. Yes—just three days after my viva. It's been a busy few weeks! enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/25/a...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment