Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row | Computer Weekly
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#DavidDavis #EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #surveillance #tcn #whatsapp
Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row | Computer Weekly

Senior Conservative MP David Davis told Computer Weekly there was “no credible case” for the government to refuse to tell Parliament how many notices it issues each year to telecoms and internet co…

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Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row | Computer Weekly

Senior Conservative MP David Davis told Computer Weekly there was “no credible case” for the government to refuse to tell Parliament how many notices it issues each year to telecoms and internet companies.

“The government is being dishonest in its use of ‘national security’ as a smokescreen to avoid telling the public how often it has ordered tech companies to hand over data or undermine encryption,” he said.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366625724/Government-using-national-security-as-smokescreen-in-Apple-encryption-row

#apple #davidDavis #endToEndEncryption #homeOffice #surveillance #tcn #whatsapp

Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row

Senior conservative MP David Davis says the Home Office should disclose how many secret orders it has issued against telecoms and internet companies to Parliament

ComputerWeekly.com
#ukpolitics #economy #usa #trump #tarifs So #2faces #starmer is going to negotiate 'a special deal' with him over there. Well good luck with that rsehole. Who you gonna send? #DavidDavis ? The same clown that 'negotiated' our 'special deal' with the #EU . #starmer = #LINO

you'll have seen that #DavidDavis intervened to help a #homeless man who was being attacked (then offering him a bed for the night).

For Davis this is a brilliant profile raising incident:

on the one hand, he can burnish his claim to be a proper 'hard man' not like the suit wearing pretenders who are all talk;

on the other, its a good downpayment on any prospective return of compassion to UK #politics.

I'm not so cynical to suggest this is why he intervened but its likely served him well!

@orangutanwriter I heard #DavidDavis talking about #refugees

He pointed out that many come from countries that we have bombed or are complicit in the bombing and conflicts

#tory telling the obvious, but often unspoken, truth

I will guarantee you will never hear anyone in #Labour say this

Is Scottish national Jagtar Singh Johal expendable in the UK's pursuit of a trade deal with India?

Given Foreign Office refusal to raise Mr Johal's case with the Indian government in recent discussions, the answer would appear to be yes. There is even an accusation of MI5 and MI6 collusion in Mr Johal's abduction by Punjab police.

#JagtarSinghJohal #SikhRights #India #UK #Scotland #ForeignOffice #JamesCleverly #DeathPenalty #torture #DavidDavis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66722970

Rishi Sunak urged to raise India detention of British man

A group of MPs say the PM must call on Narendra Modi to "immediately release" campaigner Jagtar Singh Johal.

BBC News

US spy-tech firm Palantir was a shoo-in for a multi-million-pound NHS contract months before the deal was signed, emails obtained by openDemocracy appear to show.

The email exchange from 2020, in which senior #NHS executives discussed the budget for a new national data platform, sees more than one person referring to #Palantir as the recipient of the funding.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-palantir-contract-emails-reveal-plan-win-multi-million-pound/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=palantir_shoe_in

#UK #UKGov #Health #DavidDavis #PeterTheil #CoriCrider #Foxglove #RachaelMaskell #Labour #Conservatives #UKpol

Trump donor’s firm was shoo-in for NHS deal, emails suggest

Exclusive: Tory MP demands review as email chain appears to show health chiefs knew firm would win deal

openDemocracy

Bibby Stockholm evacuation shows 'startling incompetence'"

Just think of the good David Davis could do if he were not a Tory, and was not a Brexiteer. Such wasted talent. Tragic, it is.

#BibbyStockholm #HomeOffice #DavidDavis #Brexit #Conservatives

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66485051

Bibby Stockholm evacuation shows 'startling incompetence'

MP David Davis criticises the Home Office after concerns about Legionella on the Bibby Stockholm.

BBC News