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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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