Recent UK government policies, consultations, and controversies related to digital and tech. For insight into UK tech policy throughout the Brexit proecss, visit my side blog at https://afterbrexit.tech.
The Communications Committee of the House of Lords is currently consulting on the future of internet regulation in the UK in the light of Brexit, the Facebook revelations, fake news, and hate speech.
Last week I was chatting with some rather cracking professional digital rights activists. The conversation included my attempt to get them, from their London/English perspective, to understand the different cultural …
Read moreNamed Persons II: Scotland’s next mass civilian database
On 28 February the UK Government published its Government Digital Strategy. (A mea culpa first. I had confused the Government Transformation Strategy, the internal blueprint for Whitehall digital, with the …
Read moreThe UK Government Digital Strategy is out, and it’s rubbish
Well that only took fourteen bloody months. On 9 February the Cabinet Office released the much-delayed Government Digital Strategy, the roadmap for domestic digital transformation across Whitehall and beyond. In …
Read moreGovernment transformation strategy snubs Parliamentary demands for clarity
A Parliamentary hearing into Brexit’s impact on the organised digital professions provided valuable lessons for the unorganised web industry to follow.
Labour has released 170 questions for the government concerning Brexit and policy. Here are their questions regarding digital and the tech industry.
From Hansard: Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con): I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement today. In particular, I liked the section in which he said that he …
Read moreEverything said about digital in yesterday’s Brexit statement
One of the many questions left unanswered in the face of Brexit is the future of the UK within the EU’s Digital Single Market (DSM).
The children of Dunblane were being watched. The predator knew their names, their faces, and their personalities. They knew who the children’s friends were, where they played together, and what …