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Digital Sovereignty: what this means for the UK
Detailed research, analysis and commentary on digital sovereignty with a focus on the UK. Find out who really owns the technology that organisations use every day, where the data is stored, what the points of failure are and what British businesses and policy makers can do about it.
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Digital Sovereignty – AI Models
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty Whose model is reading your data? Almost every AI feature a UK business now uses — the assistant in the inbox, the summary in the meeting, the chatbot on the website — is powered by a large language model (a system trained to predict and generate text) controlled from the…
Digital Sovereignty – Payment Rails
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty The rails are British. The cards are not. Every time money moves in Britain, it travels on one of two kinds of track. The bank-to-bank rails — Faster Payments, Bacs, CHAPS — are genuinely home-grown, run by a UK not-for-profit and the Bank of England. The card schemes almost everyone…
Digital Sovereignty – Identity and Access
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty The lock on every other door Identity is the log-in layer that gates everything else — the system that decides whether your staff and your customers can sign in at all. It is also the fastest “switch-off” risk in the whole technology stack: cut it, and every connected service goes…
Digital Sovereignty – Cloud and Data Centres
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty Where your systems actually live Almost every UK business that runs software runs it on rented ground — and for most of them the landlord is one of three American companies. This article looks at who owns the cloud underneath British IT, what a “UK region” does and does not…
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Who controls the technology behind a UK law firm?
A plain-English Sovereignty Exposure Profile for a UK mid-size law firm (roughly 50–250 fee earners). Download PDF version What this is A law firm’s most valuable and most confidential asset is its client work: privileged advice, case files, and years of matter history. Most firms now keep all of it in software and cloud services…
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Who controls the technology behind a UK financial-services firm?
A Sovereignty Exposure Profile for a UK mid-market financial-services firm — a challenger bank, building society, mid-size insurer or asset manager. Download PDF version What this is Most financial firms now run on software and cloud services rented from a handful of large suppliers. This report asks a simple question about a typical UK mid-market…
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