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Friday roundup. What a week.
This week the House of Commons Library published a formal briefing on digital sovereignty. Meanwhile, European publishers demanded the EU wrap up its two-year probe into Google and impose a fine. And the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will soon bring 900+ managed service providers under mandatory security obligations for the first time...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@alt_in_uk/116244766171694267
I did think people would be more interested in a US house judiciary committee press release.
Lol - talk about burying the lede. I'm such a doofus.
@aadeacon if I understand this correctly, it's between two US parties, i.e. the US house judiciary committee and 10 US companies. As far as they are concerned, this is a matter entirely contained within the context of US law.
The scary part is that we've all known and accepted this under the auspices of 'free trade' and 'special relationships' as some kind of inter-continental gentlemen's agreement. Now it's over.
Now will someone tell me that #digitalSovereignty isn't a big deal?
RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/116224229406939212
This is precisely the kind of thing we're talking about, when we're talking about #digitalSovereignty - even if Palantir wasn't a very dubious organisation, we still shouldn't be sending our citizens data to overseas orgs. The risks are too great, and the outcomes are permanent.
Not wild about this "intelligent dependence" concept of #digitalSovereignty seems to wholly misunderstand the potential threat. Especially given the change in the world in the last 2 years.
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/c9b69e42-480a-466e-b3d6-75f30d9e25b7
Small update on the Westminster #digitalSovereignty debate
