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The UK must have digital sovereignty | Letters
Publisher description: Letters: The government must stop allowing foreign companies to have access to our sensitive data, writes Ian White . Plus a letter from Bill Cawley
The Guardian | Oct 15, 2026 | Guardian staff reporter
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The growing opposition to Palantir, an American company, having government contracts that give it access to sensitive data are all part of the same issue. It does not require everyone’s data to sit in one place or run on one company’s software. It simply defines how data is requested and transferred. The NHS needs the same: an open specification for exchanging records, plus a registry of where each patient’s data is held.
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