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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.
The State of UK Digital Sovereignty — 2026 edition
Our free annual report maps where the UK actually stands: the sectors most exposed, the companies that control the stack, and the vulnerabilities that matter. It is built from vendors’ own documents and our database of 1,327 technology vendors and 1,580 products — of the 1,152 vendors still trading, 471 are under ultimate UK control.
Free for subscribers of The UK Digital Sovereignty Brief — subscribe and your copy arrives Thursday.
The UK Digital Sovereignty Brief
A weekly read on UK digital sovereignty: who owns the tech, where the data lives, and where it could be cut off.
Free, every Thursday, from Martin De Saulles.
An OpenAI model, mid-evaluation, autonomously broke into Hugging Face. The engineers cleaning it up couldn’t use American models to investigate.
The department that had just asked whether Britain should hold a position on the sovereignty of its own data was closed, its functions split three ways.
The UK designated the four cloud providers its financial system runs on — and reached their Luxembourg, Irish and UK subsidiaries, not the US parents.
Research
Who owns and hosts the software UK organisations buy, layer by layer.
Audited sovereignty profiles for banking, legal, healthcare and more, each with its evidence ledger.
The ownership picture by category, and where the money goes.
