What digital sovereignty means to the UK
Some states have taken such strong measures to impose their sovereign power over the internet that it has created a reckoning among global powers. Brexit threw the UK right into the centre of the argument.
The UK's digital legal regime has been uncertain since it left the European Union, with a reform of the landmark EU privacy law stalled in parliament, and numerous regulatory reviews and underway proposals.
Tech firms have called for clarity, and expressed fear that the government will make the UK into such a maverick regime that they will be blocked from doing digital business overseas.