Using private IDs in public

Unique identifiers for people and companies add enormous value to anti-corruption datasets like beneficial ownership registers, but releasing them has privacy implications. This paper explores different approaches to make private IDs useful in public or internally shared datasets.

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Parsons, A. (2020). Using private IDs in public. [online] mySociety Research. Available at: https://research.mysociety.org/publications/using-private-ids-public [Accessed 18 Jan 2021].

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mySociety and SpendNetwork have been working on a project for the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) Global Digital Marketplace Programme and the Prosperity Fund Global Anti-Corruption programme, led by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), around beneficial ownership in public procurement.

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