Member

I really want to impress upon the Minister that, as someone who works on issues of digital tech, I engage with multiple departments—the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Education, DSIT, the Home Office, the Treasury, DCMS—and there is a recurring blind spot whereby technology is treated as neutral and as though it has a right to exist outside the norms that govern the rest of our collective life: outside our culture, outside regulation, outside accountability and in this case, outside the law. But technology is not neutral; it is designed, it reflects choices, it embeds assumptions and it produces the consequences about which we have just been talking.