Claim: Joseph Pilling was a commissioner of the National Identity Service.
Evidence: Commissioner, or Identity Commissioner,
National Identity Service
2009–2011 
But not for too long: in 2009 he accepted appointment by the Home Secretary as the UK's first and only Identity Commissioner, a role having independent oversight of the National Identity Service government database (previously known as National Identity Scheme) and its controversial mission of recording, cataloguing and processing the personal details of everyone in the UK.