Digital ID can’t be gender self-ID
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Secretary of State writes to Sex Matters supporters about the data bill
On Friday (16th May) we received a letter from the Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP, Secretary of State for...
19th May 2025
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Government admits that passports are not reliable
Yesterday afternoon the House of Lords debated safeguards to ensure accurate sex data in digital identity services. These rely...
13th May 2025
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House of Lords to debate digital identity amendments again
The Data Bill is back in the House of Lords this afternoon for the ‘ping pong’ stage of counter-amendments...
12th May 2025
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Inaccurate sex data: excuses and bad arguments
On 7th May the House of Commons debated new clause 21, a proposed amendment to the Data Bill. It...
9th May 2025
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URGENT ACTION: email your MP today on the Data Bill
The Supreme Court has confirmed that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means, and has always meant, “biological sex”....
5th May 2025
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We call on Peter Kyle to guard the information gateway
Peter Kyle, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, is steering the Data Bill through Parliament. It...
11th April 2025
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Maya Forstater on LBC, 20th March 2025
Maya Forstater discusses the Sullivan Review with Shelagh Fogarty.
21st March 2025
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Public data should not conflate sex and gender, review says
Aoife Walsh and Euan O’Byrne Mulligan for BBC News report on the Sullivan Review and how it found that...
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Why the government must act on the Sullivan Review and fix the sex data problem urgently
The long-awaited report of a review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender commissioned by the government...
19th March 2025
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Government removes safeguards from digital identity bill
The government is passing legislation to establish a “trustmark” for digital identity services, and to allow these services to...
11th March 2025
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The Data Bill must protect the integrity of sex data
On Tuesday the Data Bill continues its march through the House of Commons. It is an important piece of...
3rd March 2025
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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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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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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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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