If you look at the fines available to the Information Commissioner around the GDPR rules, that could be up to 4 percent of company's turnover (...) we think we should be looking at something comparable here.

Jeremy Wright

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There is certainly the possibility of a delay in the process of the roll out of 5G: If you want to do 5G fastest then you do that without any consideration for security, but we not prepared to do that. So I don't exclude the possibility that there will be some delay.

I think it would be an opportunity for him to make the case, and if he doesn't do that, there will be a suspicion — and indeed there is — that he doesn't have a good case to make.

There's an acceptance that the UK government is determined to have a system in place to catch those who are not behaving as they should, although I don't think anyone welcomes regulation, there's an acceptance this will almost certainly happen, and we're getting useful conversations as to how this will take place.

It is important that what we do is simultaneously protecting people from harm... and at the same time maintain what is best about the internet, we have to try and strike a balance between them.

This is a consultative process, deliberately so. by Jeremy Wright

This is a consultative process, deliberately so.

Following mediation, the UK government has reached a full and final settlement of Mr Belhadj and Mrs Boudchar's claims, no admissions of liability have been made by any of the defendants ... The government has agreed to pay Mrs Boudchar 500,000 pounds ($676,000).

The Prime Minister has now written to them both to apologize. by Jeremy Wright

The Prime Minister has now written to them both to apologize.