Hacker News: ljnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ljnHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:36:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ljn in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"]]>In the UK, there's an official gov site for petitions, such that when a petition has >10k signatures, a government minister is required to write a response, and >100k triggers a parliamentary debate, iirc.

Whether the responses/parliamentary debates the person triggers end up being useful is up for debate.

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