Jim Killock
@jim.killock.org.uk
I work at @openrightsgroup
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Here is ORG's briefing for Digital Sovereignty and the #cybersecurity Bill: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/digital-sovereignty-briefing-on-the-cybersecurity-bill/
Digital Sovereignty Briefing on the Cybersecurity Bill
Raising Digital Sovereignty concerns The Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill’s second reading is scheduled for 6 January.
www.openrightsgroup.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Here is ORG's briefing for Digital Sovereignty and the #cybersecurity Bill: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/digital-sovereignty-briefing-on-the-cybersecurity-bill/
Insist on open source; use Open Standards; invest in UK and European tech expertise. This kind of approach does not disbar US corporations, but it can level the playing field between government, US big tech and other tech providers.
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Insist on open source; use Open Standards; invest in UK and European tech expertise. This kind of approach does not disbar US corporations, but it can level the playing field between government, US big tech and other tech providers.
What we should be doing - starting with the CyberSecurity Bill debate tomorrow - is defining how we get out of this dependence and extreme risk from US Big tech. The answers exist.
January 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
What we should be doing - starting with the CyberSecurity Bill debate tomorrow - is defining how we get out of this dependence and extreme risk from US Big tech. The answers exist.
But the policy consequence now, for the UK, appears to be that the government puts its head in the sand and hopes for the best, against the evidence. This is not sane policy making.
January 5, 2026 at 1:25 PM
But the policy consequence now, for the UK, appears to be that the government puts its head in the sand and hopes for the best, against the evidence. This is not sane policy making.
It is equally obvious why the UK government does not what this discussion. The UK is economically betting on US tech investment, especially from #ai. We are dependent on US tech for defence, nuclear deterrents. A large chunk of our economy is US owned.
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 PM
It is equally obvious why the UK government does not what this discussion. The UK is economically betting on US tech investment, especially from #ai. We are dependent on US tech for defence, nuclear deterrents. A large chunk of our economy is US owned.
It is obvious why Denmark is worried. Tech could be weaponised in the event of a threat to Greenland, just as Trump did with the International Criminal Court. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-sanctions-imposed-by-trump-are-taking-a-toll-on-the-international-criminal-court #icc
How sanctions imposed by Trump are taking a toll on the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court, or ICC, only intervenes when national courts can't or won't prosecute crimes like genocide and crimes against humanity. But after the Trump administration sanctioned several members of the court this year, Americans trying to prosecute some of the world's worst crimes at the ICC are discovering those sanctions are preventing them from doing that. Kira Kay reports.
www.pbs.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:21 PM
It is obvious why Denmark is worried. Tech could be weaponised in the event of a threat to Greenland, just as Trump did with the International Criminal Court. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-sanctions-imposed-by-trump-are-taking-a-toll-on-the-international-criminal-court #icc
The UK is woefully slow on the #digitalsovereignty debate. While the problem of dependence on US Tech is understood at political level in Denmark, Germany and France, the UK is not yet having the discussion.
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The UK is woefully slow on the #digitalsovereignty debate. While the problem of dependence on US Tech is understood at political level in Denmark, Germany and France, the UK is not yet having the discussion.
What links #Trump and #cybersecurity? Simple: you cannot have a dependent relationship on US Tech if you want to object to #trump and his policies. If Cybersecurity includes evading threats of a US off switch, then we have to establish what #digitalsovereignty entails.
January 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
What links #Trump and #cybersecurity? Simple: you cannot have a dependent relationship on US Tech if you want to object to #trump and his policies. If Cybersecurity includes evading threats of a US off switch, then we have to establish what #digitalsovereignty entails.
