Predatory Big Tech is being brought into the UK economy on Big Tech's terms.

[openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org]

Predatory Big Tech is being brought into the UK economy on Big Tech's terms.

Adding Tony Blair Institute and Ellison Institute officials into government "who know how to do Big Tech’s bidding is just one more sign that the UK is being asset-stripped and locked into a future of permanent rent extraction by Big Tech."

️ ORG Exec Director @jim

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/dsit-civil-servant-revolving-door-between-government-and-tony-blair-institute/

#DigitalSovereignty #tech #techpolicy #tonyblair #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol

[openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org]

The UK government has collapsed competition regulation, shifted data protection to favour business needs over personal data and promised Big Tech all the help they need to establish themselves at every level of government.

There's an alternative – a strategy for digital sovereignty that prioritises UK open source.

Public money, public code.

Tell your MP to back a #DigitalSovereignty strategy ️

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

#opensource #tech #techpolicy #tonyblair #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol