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The UK government must take cybersecurity seriously to get growth.
Key to this is strong encryption for all.
They must put guarantees in the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and quit trying to force a backdoor into secure systems like they did with Apple.
Otherwise we'll be open to more attacks.
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Nothing to do with "growth".
Data security is needed to ensure privacy, personal security, data integrity, and protection of intellectual property. Capital has the opposite interest as the lack of constraints allows rampant extraction, exploitation and accumulation - profitability, productivity - aka "growth".
To subsume data protection under ecocidal GDP growth is to miss the point woefully.
The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is also a chance to assess and reduce the UK’s dependence on large US corporations for vital government infrastructure.
Other countries like France and the Netherlands are already debating how to do this, such as through open source software.
As we saw with the AWS outage, we need digital sovereignty to keep the UK economy switched on.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-response-to-cyber-security-bill/
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