The new Government has inherited an open consultation on allowing data brokers to be ever more creepy, to buy and sell more data with less regulation. It’s coated in the language of helping individuals, but the focus is giving data brokers more permission to sell data about you, and giving you less say in the process.
The consultation assumes data must be copied to be useful, but on-device AI makes copying unnecessary, so DSIT was envisaging a world that’s already ending.
The consultation isn’t about consent – all the positive use cases discussed are things that are already legal today; it’s about allowing data flows in all aspects of your life that you wouldn’t say yes to if they had to ask you. DSIT internalised that when the law says you should be able to see data about you, they know Government, the NHS, and the private sector just ignore that because it’s convenient to keep data subjects as literal subjects of decisions made by others.
Data policy in DSIT was broken by tech advances, at the same time as those capabilities were distributed wider (not just to those who can get a meeting with officials).
You can already make some choices to use data. Your device tomorrow will give you more choices than today.
Read more about the consultation at medConfidential.org
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