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BT: UK’s regulatory ‘Wild West’ presents barrier to sovereignty investment

2026-04-30T14:31:00

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Source: FutureNet World

FutureNet World: Business CTO Colin Bannon makes rare call for greater regulation to remove sovereign platform investment barriers and warns that end-to-end technical sovereignty is unrealistic and misguided.

This article includes:

  • Themes: Barrier to investment; Data sovereignty; Operational sovereignty; Red Tractor-style standardisation; Regulation; Sovereign architecture; Sovereign-washing; Technical sovereignty.
  • Events: FutureNet World.
  • People: Colin Bannon.
  • Geographic: China; Europe; United Kingdom; USA.
  • Organisations: BT; BT Business; Cisco; NVIDIA; Nscale; OpenAI; Rackspace.

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