The UK’s Government Digital Service has shuttered a group providing advice on how to make its Gov.uk One Login program privacy-preserving, inclusive and accessible.
GDS established the 20-member One Login Inclusion and Privacy Advisory Group (OLIPAG) in 2023 through the merger of the Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group and the Privacy and Inclusion Advisory Forum. The group met with 14 GDS employees in November, 2023 and three more times between February and May, 2024, after which it appears to have gone dormant.
Members included Edgar Whitley of the London School of Economics (and author of the Ada Lovelace Institute’s Ryder Review) and Louise Bennett of the Digital Policy Alliance, the original co-chairs. They were replaced as co-chairs by Bryn Robinson-Morgan of Moresburg and Elizabeth Anderson of the Digital Poverty Alliance, but remained on the board. Other members included Margaret Ford of Consult Hyperion, Tom Fisher of Privacy International, Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch and Viv Adams of the Information Commissioner’s Office.
OLIPAG reviewed the identity assurance principles for identity services in government cooked up by the Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group, concluding they remained relevant to One Login. GDS subsequently updated its documentation of the principles to outline Gov.uk One Login’s adherence to them.
