Open Rights Group19h ago

Time's up on Ripped Off Britain!

We've locked ourselves into contracts with companies like Palantir for too long.

It has meant getting fleeced and making ourselves vulnerable in times of global volatility.

Tell your MP to back an amendment to the Cybersecurity Bill calling for a UK Digital Sovereignty strategy.

End the #BigTechRipOff ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-end-big-tech-rip/?mtm_campaign=big-tech-rip-off&mtm_source=mastodon

#digitalsovereignty #techsovereignty #cybersecuritybill #bigtech #palantir #ukpolitics #ukpol

Tell your MP: End the Big Tech Rip-Off

What’s going on? MPs will vote on amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill next Tuesday 16 June. Victoria Collins MP, has tabled amendment NC13, that would require the Government to publish a Digital Sovereignty Strategy. This is urgently needed to reduce the UK’s dependence on a small number of foreign-owned technology companies for critical public services and infrastructure. The UK government relies on risky and costly big foreign companies to provide it’s digital infrastructure. These companies lock us in their expensive services.

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Show threadOpen Rights GroupJan 15

To break the techno-permacrisis, the UK needs:

⚫ Interoperability, where people can move social media platforms while carrying their followers with them.

⚫ Digital Sovereignty, where our digital infrastructure is run on open source software under the principle of 'Public Money, Public Code'.

⚫ AI Bill to mitigate risks of harms and to rights across the public and private sectors.

#BigTech #interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #CybersecurityBill #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol

Show threadOpen Rights GroupJan 15

The UK Cybersecurity Bill is the first step to #DigitalSovereignty.

And with it, a way to address the fundamental flaw in our approach to security and online harms: the lack of competition that puts power in our hands to shape our future.

Sign and share our petition ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty

#CybersecurityBill #competition #ukpolitics #ukpol

Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.

From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.

38 Degrees
Open Rights GroupJan 15

This can't go on 🚨

Musk and his AI indecency engine shows we must shift power away from Big Tech.

Unless we regulate AI, break monopolies with competition and push for #DigitalSovereignty, the UK could be forever locked in a techno-permacrisis.

Read more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/techno-permacrisis/

#Musk #Grok #X #BigTech #interoperability #CybersecurityBill #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #TechnoPermaCrisis

Techno-Permacrisis

Musk’s latest venture, image generation in Grok that until Wednesday lacked sufficient guardrails to prevent the easy production of non-consensual sexual images and even child abuse images, provoked an Ofcom investigation and further EU Commission action as well as the promise of UK emergency legislation against apps that provide such images in less than a week.

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Show threadOpen Rights GroupJan 15

When it came to an AI Bill, the UK government blinked under pressure from US companies.

Now emergency legislation is coming to shut the gate after Grok has bolted.

This was a predictable outcome of concentrated platform power combined with a decision not to regulate AI risk at a systemic level.

#Musk #Grok #X #BigTech #interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #CybersecurityBill #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol

Show threadOpen Rights GroupJan 15

The UK is dangerously dependent on a handful of foreign tech firms to run our digital infrastructure.

As long as we fuel the power of tech giants who peddle destructive politics, the harder it is for the government to deliver a healthy online environment.

We must disrupt this abusive relationship.

#BigTech #interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #CybersecurityBill #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol

Show threadOpen Rights GroupJan 15

The core problem is lock-in:

Users and institutions are trapped in closed systems and regulation is forced to operate through the very platforms causing harm.

The UK needs to shift towards open source alternatives that don't come with the threat of systems being switched off by foreign providers.

#BigTech #interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #CybersecurityBill #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol

Open Rights GroupJan 9

Our systems aren't secure if foreign powers can pull the plug.

The UK is dangerously reliant on a few foreign tech companies for critical digital infrastructure.

We need open-source systems that we can control.

Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty

#opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol #trump #cybersecurity #cybersecuritybill

Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.

From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.

38 Degrees
Open Rights GroupJan 7

“Just as relying on one country for the UK’s energy needs would be risky and irresponsible, so is overreliance on US companies to supply the bulk of our digital infrastructure."

We need #DigitalSovereignty so the rug can't be pulled out from under us.

🗣️ @JamesBaker for ORG.

https://www.digit.fyi/open-rights-group-urges-uk-to-ditch-us-tech-in-data-sovereignty-push/

#CybersecurityBill #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol

MatildaJan 6

that sinking feeling when the people who make laws are discussing things that they are criminally ill informed about (& undoubtedly are primarily influenced by the reactionary headlines of the press)

#cybersecuritybill