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…His tactics have raised fears that #Trump is imposing long-term damage on the US standing in the world & encouraging countries to rethink their #alliances & deepen their ties with #China. #Carney already traveled there earlier this month to meet with President #Xi Jinping.

#US #MafiaState #imperialism #sovereignty #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #economy #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MadKing

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 2 weeks ago

“ #China’s leadership watched an American president fight with #allies, insult world leaders, & engage in bizarre antics, & thought to themselves—this is nothing but good for us,” Jake Sullivan, former President Joe Biden’s #NationalSecurity adviser, said….

#US #Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #sovereignty #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #economy #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MadKing

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 3 weeks ago

Even secure systems are fragile if the plug can be plugged from a distance.

In an upended world, the threat is real. That's why the UK needs to steel its digital infrastructure against foreign political interference.

Tell your MP to back #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain%E2%80%99s-digital-backbone-%E2%80%94-ask-your-mp-act

#sovereingty #uk #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Open Rights Group

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act

Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies. Much of this critical digital infrastructure is controlled by US-based firms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir, whose services are embedded across government and the public sector. Other key providers are based in Israel and China. Together, these companies operate systems that are essential to how the UK state functions day to day.

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org replied · 3 weeks ago

UK national security is exposed in having vital systems supplied by a handful of foreign tech companies.

We're vulnerable to risks, such as service withdrawal, sanctions, commercial failure, geopolitical disruption and unilateral changes to service terms.

The UK government lacks effective control.

#nationalsecurity #sovereingty #uk #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Juggling With Eggs

@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social · 3 weeks ago

In the middle of an international crisis over #Greenland, #Starmer has quietly without fanfare released the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on
'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY' that his government suppressed last October.

Don’t let it be buried. Please share!

‘Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse.’

#biodiversity
#ecosystem
#nationalsecurity

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

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Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 3 weeks ago

The UK needs a #DigitalSovereignty strategy.

This means running our services and critical infrastructure on homegrown open source tech that's beyond the reach of foreign political interference, whether it's the US, China or Israel.

We urge you to support the Early Day Motion tabled by @sianberry.

Write to your MP ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain%E2%80%99s-digital-backbone-%E2%80%94-ask-your-mp-act

#sovereignty #tech #uk #ukpolitics #ukpol #nationalsecurity

Gov services, democratic functions and critical infrastructure increasingly depend on a small number of external digital suppliers; that excessive concentration and inadequate exit or substitution planning expose the public sector to risks incl service withdrawal, sanctions, commercial failure, geopolitical disruption and unilateral changes in service terms; also notes that existing gov policy, incl the Tech Code of Practice and Open Standards Principles, promotes interoperability, portability, reuse, access to source code and open source approaches to reduce supplier dependency, but that these principles are not applied consistently or in a binding way across gov; believes that long-term resilience, continuity of public services and value for money require the Gov to retain effective control over digital systems it funds or relies upon, incl the ability to maintain, modify, and replace them without dependence on a single supplier; further believes that reducing supplier concentration through interoperable systems would strengthen competition, support UK tech firms and SMEs, and increase the proportion of public digital expenditure retained in the UK economy; and calls on the Gov to publish a comprehensive digital sovereignty strategy with binding effect across central gov, arm’s-length bodies, and the wider public sector, setting out how continuity of service and operational autonomy will be ensured in the event of supplier withdrawal, sanctions or external state action.

Open Rights Group

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act

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Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 3 weeks ago

America sneezes. We catch a cold.

And the UK is overexposed.

As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.

Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-devise-uk-digital-sovereignty-strategy

#trump #sovereignty #tech #nationalsecurity #uk #ukpolitics #ukpol

Open Rights Group

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 3 weeks ago

America sneezes. We catch a cold.

And the UK is overexposed.

As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.

Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-devise-uk-digital-sovereignty-strategy

#trump #sovereignty #tech #nationalsecurity #uk #ukpolitics #ukpol

Open Rights Group

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org replied · 3 weeks ago

The UK needs a #DigitalSovereignty strategy.

This means running our services and critical infrastructure on homegrown open source tech that's beyond the reach of foreign political interference, whether it's the US, China or Israel.

We urge you to support the Early Day Motion tabled by @sianberry.

Write to your MP ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain%E2%80%99s-digital-backbone-%E2%80%94-ask-your-mp-act

#sovereignty #tech #uk #ukpolitics #ukpol #nationalsecurity