The US should forge a long-term technology partnership with the UK, which unlike the European Union, can regulate the industry in a “friendly way,” the British envoy in Washington told Bloomberg in an exclusive interview.
“I feel so enthusiastic, because we already have in place not just a natural affinity with US technology companies, but frankly, we’re benefiting from not being bound by European Union regulation,” Ambassador Peter Mandelson told an exclusive Bloomberg Government roundtable this week. “We can regulate technology in a responsible, safe way, certainly, and we’re very conscious of online harms and protection of children, but we …