All posts filed under: Brexit
What the Schrems II ruling means for Brexit
We’re out. What now?
As I’ve written on my side blog, https://afterbrexit.tech: With the UK now out of the European Union, it is clear beyond any doubt that Brexit is being used as a means for British policymakers to embark on an open regulatory experiment. Legislators across all parties, think tanks, and media outlets are seeking to fundamentally redraft the legal and social foundations of the open web, our access to it, and our use of it, under the […]
Because I always look impressive in blockquotes
What you need to know about a No Deal Brexit
I didn’t think we’d be here, but here we are. In my capacity as a Policy Fellow at COADEC, the tech policy body for the UK’s tech startups, I have written a plain-English guide for tech and digital businesses to use to prepare for a No Deal Brexit. While the guidance is aimed at startups and scaleups, the advice is applicable to all tech businesses regardless of where they are on their journey.
Talking Brexit and a11y at Accessibility Scotland
Money’s short, times are hard, here’s your Brexit Christmas card
Sometimes the medium is the message and the backstory is the story. Here is one.
A woman’s place is in the House (of Commons)
Parliament carried on as usual today. Parliament carried on because the people of this country had questions that needed answers. In Parliament’s first hour of business on the morning after, I was one of them. Hansard records that my MP, Kirsten Oswald, put my question forward as this: T8. My constituent Heather Burns works in the digital economy. She has only ever known a borderless, connected world of work. Can the Secretary of State reassure […]
The Brexit white paper on digital: a very short post
And so we had the government’s Brexit white paper, a document so vapid that it inspired my MP to tweet that it reminded her of a high school student stretching out an essay to meet the required word count. Eagle-eyed readers spotted the date stamps on many pages of the PDF version indicating that the paper had been finished between 3 and 4 AM on the day it was due to be published. That stunt […]
A fresh round of government evasions on digital, Brexit, and the Digital Single Market
There were some intriguing developments announced regarding the UK’s Brexit negotiations and the Digital Single Market strategy on Friday the 20th of January. I can’t imagine why we all missed it. These developments came in a report published by the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee of the House of Commons. The full report is fourteen pages in pdf, also available in one page of six-point type. Keen readers will recall that the committee’s predecessor, […]
How to make a success of Brexit: the House of Lords talks digital and tech
A Parliamentary hearing into Brexit's impact on the organised digital professions provided valuable lessons for the unorganised web industry to follow.
Labour’s questions on digital and tech for the government on #Brexit
Labour has released 170 questions for the government concerning Brexit and policy. Here are their questions regarding digital and the tech industry.