From the consultation on digital identity verification:

Inclusion is at the heart of GOV.UK One Login. The proposed data-sharing legislation will ensure that more people than ever before will be able to prove their identity online and access government services, so that anybody who wants to use online services is able to.

Also from the consultation:

Our preference would be for you to respond online through our survey. We cannot accept postal responses to this consultation unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Has the threat of the database state ever involved people who actually understood databases and how to maintain them?

EXC: A Labour government could introduce “basic” ID cards to help to count how many people there are in Britain and reduce illegal immigration.

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— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) November 8, 2022

Researching a long piece on aslyum seekers and I had not realised quite how borked our processing system it is. It's jaw dropping - it's literally run via manual data entry on excel spreadsheets that keep crashing.

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) November 8, 2022

Bad news for researchers in museum ethics, whose field is now officially redundant: ICOM has announced that museums operate ethically by definition.

It must have startled the sector’s numerous internal critics to learn that they can’t do that any more.

Well, at least one can hardly accuse this ethicist of mere armchair philosophising:

A man with a neurodegenerative disease testified to [the Canadian] Parliament that nurses and a medical ethicist at a hospital tried to coerce him into killing himself by threatening to bankrupt him with extra costs or by kicking him out of the hospital, and by withholding water from him for 20 days.

Of course, what one really wants to know is missing, i.e. was the ethicist a utilitarian?