Jim Killock

Not content with giving #Palantir access to the UK's health data and defence secrets, now they will know about people's finances as well: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data #digitalsovereignty

Ah, how will "Nigel cut my bills?" By "cutting Government quangos and making them more efficient." Like Environment Agency cuts helped water Companies to pour sewage into rivers unimpeded? Maybe the ICO could be helped to be more useless? Or the Competition Authority?

https://nigelcutmybills.com/

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn #Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security #digitalsovereignty

https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-mod-sources-government-data-insights-security-state-secrets

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives | Reuters « more than data; any kind of software autonomy I fear
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/ #digitalsovereignty

Very little / nothing on @BBCNews@flipboard.com regarding Josh Simons and his attempts to destroy the credibility of multiple journalists who were asking questions about donations at #LabourTogether via accusations they were aligned with Russian intelligence.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/21/labour-minister-josh-simons-false-accusations-journalists-russia-gchq

Thank you, #OnlineSafetyAct for failing to regulate #AgeVerification in any way at all. Now Discord users must hand their data to a Peter-Thiel-of-Palantir-linked system.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

Complete false dichotomy. Nobody need object to deploying IBM's RedHat software on #digitalsovereignty grounds, cos it is open source. It is "owned and controlled by somebody else" that governments are worrying about.

https://www.ft.com/content/0847914c-be27-4573-8600-8cdb54e604b7

Great news today the French government have launched their own Visio video conferencing tool #digitalsovereignty But the PR stories, while explaining it is French built, don't mention it is Open Source and based on LiveKit - so any government can reuse what they have done. https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet