The Data (Use and Access) Bill was expected to finish its journey through parliament this week and quickly become law, but it has floundered. The delay is not connected with data protection, but on a disagreement between the Commons and the Lord’s on another section, regarding AI and copyright.
The government proposes that AI developers should be able to train AI models on copyrighted data unless the creators opt out, but nearly 300 members of the House of Lords disagree. They maintain that AI firms should be forced to disclose which copyrighted materials they used to train their model with, with a view to licensing it.
BBC Tech has a good write-up at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrgv2n190o and let us hope it gets resolved quickly, to make charity soft opt-in one step closer.