The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has decided to make its GitHub repositories private, citing concerns over AI-driven data scraping and broader security risks associated with publicly accessible source code.
The UK Government Digital Service has published guidance recommending public sector organizations keep code open by default, in an apparent rebuke to the NHS's decision to close its open source repositories after vulnerabilities were disclosed through Project Glasswing.
A UK civil service blog reports on internal tensions after the NHS decided to move away from open-source software, with the Government Digital Service (GDS) publicly weighing in on the dispute—an unusually public airing of an internal government disagreement.