The Ethical Computing Project CIC

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  • Palantir, Lobbying, and the NHS: Why This Story Matters

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    A recently released set of communications involving Peter Mandelson raises serious questions about how a US surveillance technology company came to win hundreds of millions of pounds worth of NHS contracts. Mandelson (you know the one – the friend of the paedophile Epstein which Starmer hired in spite of this being common knowledge to everyone)…

  • Good News for Linux: California May Exempt Open Source from Age Verification Law

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    A proposed amendment to a California law could spare open source operating systems like Linux from burdensome age verification requirements. The original law, signed last year and due to take effect from 1st January 2027 would have required operating system providers (in California) to collect age information from users at setup. That kind of obligation…

  • Even the Pope Is Warning About Big Tech Power Over AI

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    Pope Leo XIV has issued his first major teaching as Pope, and he has chosen artificial intelligence as his subject. The document, titled Magnifica Humanitas , covers a lot of ground, but its core message will be familiar to anyone who cares about ethical computing: when a small number of powerful corporations control the data,…

  • Your Privacy Is Too Important to Leave to Big Tech

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    A leaked internal Meta document has revealed something that should make all of us uncomfortable. When launching facial recognition software for its smart glasses, Meta apparently noted that civil society groups would be too busy dealing with other political fires to push back hard. The implication is that Meta saw a window of reduced public…

  • The computer inside your computer: why it matters for digital sovereignty.

    The computer inside your computer: why it matters for digital sovereignty.

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    Europe is spending billions trying to keep its data out of American hands. But there’s a problem nobody’s talking about: it’s baked into the processor. There’s a conversation happening across Europe about digital sovereignty: about keeping data out of the reach of American tech giants and US law. Governments are funding alternatives. France has built…

  • Today Amazon Kills Millions of Perfectly Good Kindles – and Calls It Progress

    Today Amazon Kills Millions of Perfectly Good Kindles – and Calls It Progress

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    Today is the day Amazon pulls the plug. As of 20th May 2026, the company has officially cut store support for all Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier. Not because they are broken. Not because they are unsafe, but because Amazon has decided they are no longer worth maintaining. Millions of customers who trusted…

  • We Choose Tuta

    We Choose Tuta

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    Although I am a long time Proton Mail user (and still am), the recent moves by the Swiss government to dramatically expand state surveillance powers (potentially requiring email providers to log metadata and decrypt user data on demand) have prompted a rethink. Not only is Tuta based in Germany (and are therefore not bound by…

  • Our first FrameWork 13 Laptop.

    Our first FrameWork 13 Laptop.

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    Some months ago, we ordered our first Framework 13 Laptop. Of most note was the long journey from Taiwan. The travel history showed despatch from Taoyuan in Taiwan, then via the Philippines, China, Germany, and France before hitting the UK. The device had been shipped direct, rather than via a technology distributor, so on the…

  • We’re officially a CIC!

    We’re officially a CIC!

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    On International Workers’ Day of 2026 we announced that we were submitting our application to become a Community Interest Company. Formerly a side project of IT Norwich Ltd, we’re now delighted to confirm that The Ethical Computing Project CIC was officially registered in England and Wales on 12th May 2026. We deliberately chose that day…