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Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

Commons · Question 47557 · Tabled 23 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

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Asked by Vikki Slade

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that ongoing work under the digital identities framework to digitise (a) sex and (b) other personal information incorporates safeguards to guarantee th

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Answered by Feryal Clark, 8 May 2025

Digital identities do not offer a new way to determine sex or gender. As with physical verification, individual organisations are responsible for determining what precise information it is appropriate to verify in a particular case and how they verify tha...