{"id":21038,"date":"2026-04-24T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/21038\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:58:57","slug":"british-lawmakers-warn-of-glaring-risks-in-relying-on-us-tech-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/21038\/","title":{"rendered":"British lawmakers warn of \u2018glaring risks\u2019 in relying on US tech \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the U.K.\u2019s National Risk Register \u2014 meant to flag issues of concern to Whitehall \u2014 recognizes the risk from cyberattacks and outages of critical technologies, the signatories warn that it \u201cdoes not address risks related to service discontinuation, interference, or attacks that may result from foreign states using legal powers to compel service providers and manufacturers,\u201d despite such risks appearing to meet the threshold for inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, signed by Green Party MP Sian Berry, Liberal Democrat MP Victoria Collins, Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake and Labour MP Clive Lewis, states that while other European countries have held an \u201copen discussions and analysis\u201d of the risks and begun to take steps to cut their reliance on U.S. providers, the U.K. has failed to disclose the risks of its approach or set out a \u201cdigital sovereignty\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn contrast, the UK is contracting Palantir to deliver core components of the Ministry of Defence\u2019s data systems,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-party MPs, including signatories of the letter, previously slammed the government\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/palantir-lands-biggest-ever-uk-defense-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">award the controversial U.S. tech firm<\/a> a \u00a3240 million contract earlier this year and have urged it to review a separate \u00a3330 million contract with the NHS over privacy and dependency fears.<\/p>\n<p>Clamoring for clarity<\/p>\n<p>U.K. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall is due to make a speech \u201con the future of artificial intelligence, tech sovereignty and Britain\u2019s place in the world\u201d next week.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of that, Berry said she and fellow signatories were \u201csounding the alarm\u201d over \u201cglaring risks to our citizens from the choices made for our critical digital infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the U.K.\u2019s National Risk Register \u2014 meant to flag issues of concern to Whitehall \u2014 recognizes the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2096,9724,5397,9725,7498,2098,375,597,4968,185,9726,9727,6372,460,9728,1426,91,5,6,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-21038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-ben-lake","10":"tag-big-tech","11":"tag-clive-lewis","12":"tag-darren-jones","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-infrastructure","15":"tag-intelligence","16":"tag-liz-kendall","17":"tag-parliament","18":"tag-privacy","19":"tag-procurement","20":"tag-resilience","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-strategic-autonomy","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-tony-blair","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116459101360767927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}