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Online Safety Act: Digital ID and the Risks of a Database State

The Online Safety Act is reshaping how identity, privacy, and enforcement work in digital spaces, especially for those building infrastructure, authentication systems, and online platforms. In this episode, Viktor sits down with James Baker, policy lead at Open Rights Group and long-time digital rights advocate, to unpack what the UK Online Safety Act and Digital ID proposals really mean beyond the headlines. With over 20 years of experience pushing back on surveillance and centralized data systems, James brings a critical yet grounded view into where these policies are heading and how engineers, product teams, and open source contributors should respond. In this episode, we cover: *Why Digital ID in the UK is less about tech and more about centralized control *What the “Database State” means for everyday users and system builders *How the Online Safety Act shifts liability onto platforms and infrastructure teams *The enforcement problem: jurisdictional overreach, VPNs, and content blocks *How metadata scanning and hash matching threaten encryption and privacy *What the UK can (and can’t) learn from BankID and Estonia’s e-ID *Realistic alternatives: open standards, zero-knowledge proofs, and decentralization If you’re working on identity, encryption, or infrastructure, this is a clear-eyed look at where policy decisions start shaping real systems. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro & Context 03:00 - Digital ID in the UK 08:00 - Identity Models Compared 12:00 - The Database State 17:00 - Surveillance Infrastructure in Practice 24:30 - Designing a Safer Digital ID 28:00 - The Online Safety Act Unpacked 36:00 - Age Verification & Misplaced Burdens 44:00 - Enforcement, Jurisdiction & Fragmentation 51:00 - Chat Control & Encryption Backdoors 59:00 - What Comes Next 01:04:00 - Closing Thoughts