James Freeland - Senior Data and Security Architect, GDS

Securing personal data across government

James Freeland - Senior Data and Security Architect, GDS, 27 February 2026 - Data protection, Data Standards, Guidance

New principles for a digital age: Senior leaders, delivery teams and data professionals across government are encouraged to adopt these principles as the foundation for secure, trusted services.  

Strengthening and extending connectivity: what we learned from the API hub alpha

James Freeland - Senior Data and Security Architect, GDS and Alex Smith, Head of Data Security, GDS, DSIT, 28 November 2025 - agile, API

APIs are essential to modern services, but they’re often hard to find or reuse. We're developing a central API hub to make discovery, collaboration and reuse easier across government.

Joining up the dots: the findings of our recent API discovery

James Freeland - Senior Data and Security Architect, GDS, 3 April 2025 - Data Standards, Data Strategy, Open data

Joining up the dots - is about turbo-charging API connectivity across government to enable effective data sharing in a seamless, secure, legal and trusted manner.

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