The Swiss have just rejected the idea of a government mandated Digital ID scheme in a referendum by a two-thirds majority. …

Let’s start with what I mean by ‘need’. For as long as anyone can remember we’ve been asked to show ID, or prove our address. The thing is that was in person, at worst people saw a bad passport photo, but the data itself was impossibly difficult to correlate and…

The UK government has this week announced the arrival of their contact tracing app. It’s great that they, led by the team at NHSx, have moved so swiftly to make something available. There are, however, significant concerns about their approach, particularly for privacy. They have decided to go against the…