Jim Killock

‘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