The UK intelligence agencies are pushing for changes to surveillance laws that they argue are placing unnecessary limitations on their ability to train artificial intelligence models with personal data. These changes would make it easier for GCHQ, MI6, and MI5 to use certain types of data by relaxing privacy safeguards. Privacy experts and civil liberties groups are concerned about this move, as it would roll back legal protections put in place after Edward Snowden’s disclosures about state surveillance. The intelligence agencies argue that rapidly advancing AI capabilities require stronger regulation, but they are advocating for a reduction in safeguards regulating their use of large volumes of information known as bulk personal datasets (BPDs). These datasets often contain sensitive information about large groups of people, most of whom are not of security interest. The agencies want to relax rules about using BPDs when people have a “low or no expectation of privacy”. The proposed changes were presented to senior barrister and member of the House of Lords, David Anderson, who found that the agencies’ proposals would replace existing safeguards with a quicker process of self-authorisation. Anderson recommended amending the law to create “a less onerous set of safeguards” but also retaining ministerial and judicial oversight. The government is now considering these recommendations and will respond later this year.
UK spy agencies seek to ease regulations on AI data usage for improved efficiency | Data safeguarding
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