Notices by Mariano delli Santi (marianods@mastodon.bida.im)

"That immediately makes people who aren't in that central Whitehall office think that this is something which is not going to be empowering and not going to be helping them."

I will reveal you something right here right now: the UK Govt AI assistant will not be empowering and will not help them. It will help the purses of the corporate tech mobs who are procuring it, though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy48vl3p0nyo

Chris Bryant MP takes the floor, express Labour committment to stregthen the independence of the ICO and to support the “smart data” scheme.

Chris Bryant now moves to Privacy in Electronic Communications, highlighting the Govt failures to live up to their pledge to fight nuisance calls and cookie banners

According to Chris Bryant, this would allow innovative use of data the same way Open Banking enabled interoperability of bank services. He warns, however, about the ambition to start a “bing bang of smart data”—I myself wouldn't like to be in the middle of a cosmic detonation

Chris Bryant explains that cookie fatigue is indeed a problem, but proposing to just empower the Secretary of State to enable cookie tracking without parliamentary scrutiny is not a solution. “The state is taking significant powers over private individuals”