{"podcast":{"title":"Technology Pill","slug":"technology-pill-560921","podcast_index_feed_id":560921,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/152674c8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/3448418/3448418-1610538873523-a8397ebe0012e.jpg","author":"Privacy International","episode_count":104,"summary":"Find out how technology is reshaping our lives every day and explore the new powers of governments and companies.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T00:17:47.008339+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921"},"episode":{"title":"Why governments struggle with ID","slug":"why-governments-struggle-with-id","published_at":"2026-03-27T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/why-governments-struggle-with-id","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill/episodes/Why-governments-struggle-with-ID-e3h0e12","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/152674c8/podcast/play/117503458/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-26%2F420802381-44100-2-02291abdf1897.m4a","summary":"This week we're speaking to Professor Edgar Whitley - an expert on the design and implementation of ID systems. Links- More about Edgar: https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/edgar-whitley- More about the London School of Economics and ID: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-impact-case-studies/scrapping-costly-controversial-proposals-identity-cards- Gus and Edgar's joint publications: - Global challenges for identity policies: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Global_Challenges_for_Identity_Policies.html?id=P7hsCwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y - Global Identity Policies and Technology:Do we Understand the Question? An open access paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00028.x - Book chapter on Aadhaar: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90490/- Edgar's report on Women and ID: https://silkstart.s3.amazonaws.com/1967006c-a430-414e-9982-75e204478d6e.pdf- More information on Aadhaar in India: https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/819/aadhaar-scheme-faq- The Indian Supreme Court decision: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/2299/initial-analysis-indian-supreme-court-decision-aadhaar and https://www.scobserver.in/cases/beghar-foundation-ks-puttaswamy-aadhaar-review-case-background/- The Windrush scandal: https://jcwi.org.uk/reportsbriefings/windrush-scandal-explained/- Interview with people in Kenya who had been double registered: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz3h0TjXz7gXB4xg4WNdg9_8JyBftx_kP- Yes Minister TV show: https://archive.org/details/yes-minister-1980-1984 including the famous Big Brother episode: https://archive.org/details/yes-minister-1980-1984/Yes+Minister+-+S01E04+-+Big+Brother.mp4- The Clarkson toothpick incident: https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/jeremy-clarkson-victim-of-id-fraud-after…","meta_description":"This week we're speaking to Professor Edgar Whitley - an expert on the design and implementation of ID systems. Links- More about Edgar: https://www.lse.a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3789,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/technology-pill-560921/episodes/why-governments-struggle-with-id/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/why-governments-struggle-with-id.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}