The UK opened data regulation to possible guidance, targeted changes, or fundamental reform for AI.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology opened a call for evidence on how personal and non-personal data regulation interacts with AI and other data-intensive technologies. It asks where legal, technical, and governance arrangements enable data use and reuse, where they create friction, and how future technology may change data use in the economy.
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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology opened a call for evidence on how personal and non-personal data regulation interacts with AI and other data-intensive technologies. It asks where legal, technical, and governance arrangements enable data use and reuse, where they create friction, and how future technology may change data use in the economy.
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This is a consultation, not a policy decision. Its broad scope can surface genuine legal uncertainty, but it also leaves open whether the result will be narrow guidance, statutory change, deregulation, stronger safeguards, or no material change.
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Submissions before September 9, the treatment of training data and inferred data, privacy and competition concerns, public-sector access, copyright interaction, regulator coordination, proposed legislative language, and whether changes preserve enforceable rights.
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- UK Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyData regulation in the age of AI and other data-intensive technologies ↗
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