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Dr Charlie Harry Smith

@chsmith.bsky.social
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Digital ID at CO/DSIT Developed the first liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems (for a DPhil at @oiioxford.bsky.social) chsmith.co.uk

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
@leaypi.bsky.social see you in Hay, Lea! Hopefully bit less scorching by then…
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
@leaypi.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to know Father Christmas has good taste in books. Can’t wait to dig into it!
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The NDL team’s had a rocky year, from what I hear… They need you!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
GOTY contender (philosopher’s choice, at least)? youtu.be/oONZ_f4kwiU?...
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The Trolley Solution - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer | Latin American Games Showcase 2025
YouTube video by GameTrailers
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
That reminds me of CGP Grey talking about how he obsessively plays one crappy pop song on endless repeat while writing, for precisely the white noise reason! To each their own!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Never understood how people write with music on! Even stuff with no words stops me from thinking properly. Loved Radio 4 Comedy while cooking, though, to forget work in the evenings…
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"Some kinds of writing shouldn’t, or perhaps can’t, be summarized." #authors www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Quite enjoying tracking and rating restaurants with this new app Beli that @laurelboxall.bsky.social introduced me to! beliapp.co/wMFSbUBdxVb?...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Resharing for the after work crew!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
As a result — and although I must stress that this thesis in no way represents the government’s views, only my own — I hope the conclusions will be of interest to theorists, identity experts, and policymakers alike!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I then ultimately deploy this analysis to generate a coherent policy position, resolving what I see as a series of interlinked dilemmas: unchecked central oversight, persistent exclusion, and neoliberal economisation.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Throughout, I unpack the deeply ethical and political reasons for Britain’s uniquely troubled history with identification systems, using lenses of freedom and control, access and inclusion, as well as surveillance and privacy.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Drawing on interviews with 51 identity experts across industry, government and civil society, I construct something of a normative history of British identity systems, from 1414 to 2024.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In it, I evaluate the British state’s successive national digital identity systems using the tools of liberal political philosophy – for the first time.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🎓 I’m pleased to share that my doctoral thesis is now available for download (freely – it's Open Access!) from the Oxford University Research Archive: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
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A liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
This thesis evaluates the British state’s national digital identity systems using the tools of liberal political philosophy for the first time. Such systems are becoming ubiquitous, with public and pr...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I’ll brave the rain, lightning and hail, he thought. It doesn’t look that bad!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
bsky.app/profile/heta...
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This week’s Kitchen Diary observer.co.uk/style/nigel-...
Creme fraiche, mozzarella and a block of Parmesan with a bunch of radishes and leaves of wild garlic sit on a scrubbed pine table.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Can you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco Corp www.ft.com/content/c043... Fascinating experiment. Sounds wildly inefficient in many ways, and not sure I’d love working there, but glad someone’s trying it!
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Can you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco Corp
For over a decade, a $20bn manufacturer has been conducting a radical experiment. No one has a boss or takes orders. Their decisions are guided by one thing, an internal currency system called Will
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Congrats Myke!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Will let you know if they get back to me, but I’m not holding my breath…!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Ha! I’m one of those (well, for DuckDuckGo searches) Submitted a complaint to Meta too
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Great article! Had no idea how insanely readable COBOL code was until now. Let alone the gendered/gatekeeping dynamics behind its historical denigration or modern downplaying of the number of active coders…
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James Higgott @jiggott.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This blog post by @mattedgar.bsky.social resonated. 'Pragmatic ambition' is a good term that I will no doubt be using soon. blog.mattedgar.com/2025/03/29/b...
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Between the tepid bath and the cloud of vapour: a plea for pragmatic ambition
A man visiting a health resort is sitting in a steam box. Engraving, May 1869. Wellcome Collection In my most recent weeknote, I promised a blog post… Somewhere in all this between the t…
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Congratulations Pat! Hope you enjoy the well-earned fruits of retirement. Please post photos!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Commiserations! ❤️
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Only acceptable to train that early if you’re on the way to the airport for a well earned break
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If only someone had warned us that turning your own DNA into a saleable asset was a bad idea www.bbc.com/news/article...
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23andMe files for bankruptcy protection
The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Took me a while, but I've finally deactivated X/Twitter – will be fully deleted next month. Just don't trust that even historical data is safe there anymore. Considered handle-squatting but decided it's not worth it...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Yes, it was a German quoted in an FT article! www.ft.com/content/3059...
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German army struggles to get Gen Z recruits ‘ready for war’
Bundeswehr has a high dropout rate and the number of conscientious objectors is rising
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Tiny attack vector, since patched, in mobile browsers. Pretty interesting though! #passkeys “an attacker within BLE range can trick a victim into using their passkey to log the attacker's (Raspberry Pi) device into their account.”
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I know this is a joke, but for those who might be interested I’m pretty sure that’s Zédel!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Any teasers??
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Highly recommend switching to Maestral if you’re on a Mac. Keep using your Dropbox account but use a far better sync agent
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I quoted so much of Jon’s work in my thesis! Such an insightful scholar
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Zutilo can help but yeah, it’s not great. Weird considering how prevalent edited collections are in academic publishing…
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
An apology to John Rawls. I couldn’t really understand why he was so obsessed with the importance of stability as a political value. But now I do.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We’re so cooked y’all
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David G.W. Birch @dgwbirch.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Mastercard be like "digital identity will become the master key to a connected world, unlocking access across platforms and borders without exposing personal data"
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Mastercard Signals: Racing towards the future of payments
This issue of Signals explores seven trends signaling how payments could evolve by 2030
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Plus, if ever we needed more examples of why extreme care is needed when creating (digital) powers, even if you trust the incumbents… change can happen very fast
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@laurelboxall.bsky.social said this was too spicy to post 👀
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Is this the US version of SpAds?
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Got views on the latest trust framework we published in November? We’d really appreciate your feedback — more detailed the better! #digitalidentity The survey linked below is open to all and closes 3rd Feb, so there’s plenty of time to collate your thoughts
enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk
Your feedback on the gamma (0.4) trust framework
In November, we pre-released the gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework. We also highlighted that we would be seeking feedback on this latest publication to inform our ongoing work. This post ...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Congrats Alex! Exciting
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