Speeches by Darlington.

“This week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and we must remember the acceleration of online harms. We have heard horrific accounts of ChatGPT giving young people diets of 600 calories per day, which is just appalling. We know the suffering and pain caused by seeing images tagged with the terms “ana”, “thinspiration” …”

“I have a few questions for the Minister. I appreciate the clarity that the Bill brings to many of the services in its scope. I would like to understand how the definition of “incidents” will relate to hardware vulnerabilities that are discovered within a company, as we heard from some of the people who gave evidence to…”

“As the Minister will be aware, I have spoken consistently of my concern about our reliance on hardware and tech that comes from potentially non-favourable state actors abroad. That also relates to Government procurement, which I have raised before, as the Minister will know. The Committee has already discussed how loca…”

“Again, I welcome the Government amendments and clause 18; they are important to enabling us to share our vulnerabilities in an appropriate way with those people who may be involved. However, some of the aspects of those vulnerabilities that security services—GCHQ, His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre and othe…”

“As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong, I want to say on my behalf and that of many of its members how we horrified we are. This case exemplifies the systematic dismantling of Hong Kong’s judicial independence. The proceedings under the national security law do not operate within the independent or …”

“Q I have a question for Ian Hulme. In your role at the ICO, you are clearly looking at data security. Data is obviously one of the main goals of cyber-attacks. Data issues cut across every sector, and you are looking at a really broad sector of data, from individual identifiers to names, addresses, bank accounts or wha…”

“A Tuesday or Thursday 90-minute debate, please.”

“Q A huge thank you to the panel. Many of my colleagues have already asked the question, so I appreciate you talking about the futureproofing in quantum, the international regulatory environment and the use of standards alongside regulation to drive up quality. You all have a huge amount of UK clients, and I want to ask…”

“Tuesday or Thursday—not “and”.”

“Q I want to move from software to hardware that is particularly vulnerable to potential cyber-attack, particularly from the integration of Chinese tech into SIPs, possibly making them vulnerable to cyber-attack by someone who knows the code into those bits of hardware. Should we be doing more to protect against that vu…”

“Q I want to go back to basics and get a bit of insight from you. What cyber risks are businesses currently facing, and how do you feel the Bill addresses those risks? David Cook: The original NIS regulations came out of a directive from 2016, so this is 10 years old now, and the world changes quickly, especially when i…”

“DHSC, because this is ultimately about women’s health.”

“Thank you very much, Bob. We want to bring this debate to the House because we feel that it is an issue that is very little understood, and is having a huge impact on the majority—51%—of the population. It is the issue of the censorship of women’s health information and products online, because they are deemed too sexu…”

“Q I note your interest in how the Bill will affect smaller businesses. There is not much detail in the Bill, but how do you think the code of practice could create an environment that lifts everyone’s security up without prescribing too great a burden? Richard Starnes: You just stepped on one of my soapbox issues. I wo…”

“Q9. If reports are correct, Elon Musk has climbed down today under pressure from this Government. Let’s be clear: stripping women naked without consent in real life or online is abuse. However, we do not know whether to trust what X says today, and this is not just happening on X. Will the Prime Minister join me and me…”

“Picking up on your point about deepfakes, the current legal position is that it is illegal to “make or publish a false statement of fact about the personal character or conduct of a candidate”—that is off your website. Do you think that that is strong enough legislation for deepfakes?”

“And you can buy them.”

“And some clarity about which agency has responsibility for that. What is the role of the Electoral Commission? What is the role of security services? Everyone seems to say that this is somebody else’s responsibility.”

“And some clarity about which agency has responsibility for that. What is the role of the Electoral Commission? What is the role of security services? Everyone seems to say that this is somebody else’s responsibility.”

“You are talking about some really classic cases of traditional election manipulation. I am not sure if you are aware of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s report into misinformation and disinformation during the riots and the role that state actors played within that. While they did not create it, the e…”