The G7 package isn’t a ‘huge prize for UK taxpayers’, and Rishi Sunak should admit it. Big tech firms still won’t pay their fair shareGeorge Turner is director of TaxWatchAs revelations continue to emerge from the Pandora papers, it would be easy to fo…
UK offers cash for CSAM detection tech targeted at E2E encryption
The U.K. government is preparing to spend over half a million dollars to encourage the development of detection technologies for child sexual exploitation material (CSAM) that can be bolted on to end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms to scan for the illegal material, as part of its ongoing policy push around internet and child safety. In a […]
After years of inaction against adtech, UK’s ICO calls for browser-level controls to fix ‘cookie fatigue’
In the latest quasi-throwback toward ‘do not track‘, the UK’s data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting to allow Internet users to set “lasting” cookie preferences — suggesting this as a fix for the barrage of consent pop-ups that continues to infest websites in the region. European web […]
Afghanistan: G7 leaders to seek unity on Taliban as deadline for evacuation looms
Group of world leaders expected to discuss fraught evacuation deadline, sanctions and human rightsAfghanistan – latest updatesG7 leaders will be under pressure to present a united front at an emergency summit on Afghanistan on Tuesday despite public di…
Johnson to urge Biden to keep US troops at Kabul airport after 31 August
PM’s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will personally lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders summit, No 10 said on Sunday night, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end o…
Trump team thought UK officials ‘out of their minds’ aiming for herd immunity, book says
Trump officials tried to convince him to take threat seriously and British experts ‘oddly pessimistic’ on defeating virus, says bookUS officials thought their British counterparts “were out of their minds” in aiming for herd immunity as part of Boris J…
UK condemns 10-year sentence for dual national in Iran as tensions rise
British-Iranian labour rights activist’s sentencing coincides with deteriorating relations between western allies and IranThe UK government has hit out at reports that a British-Iranian labour rights activist has been given a sentence of 10 years in Te…
The Observer view on the Royal Navy’s operation in the South China Sea | Observer editorial
Sailing into imperial delusions is no way to run foreign policyWhat would Jack Aubrey have made of it? When Patrick O’Brian’s fictitious Royal Navy hero sailed HMS Surprise to the far side of the world, the enemy was the USS Norfolk, a lone American fr…