The US has ordered its diplomats to lobby against foreign data privacy laws that could limit American tech firms
“The US administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate American technology companies’ handling of foreigners’ data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable that such efforts could interfere with AI-related services.”
If this is true, it is going to have exactly the opposite effect to what was intended. The way I read that is, AI is being used to suck up as much private and corporate data as possible, and implementing digital sovereignty is going to impact that suction force.
As mentioned before, when it comes to the US specifically, there are the US CLOUD and PATRIOT Acts, which govern any US company operating anywhere else in the world (i.e. outside the USA). The implications about what US owned AI may be doing, and the access to that data, could be pretty alarming.
The only question we need to ask, at a sovereignty level is, whose interests are being curtailed if the data is no longer available? Is it just corporate profits, or is it something deeper at a national state level? If it is the former, then what happened to open competition and markets? If it is merely economic, then why are diplomats getting involved?
Yes, we may be reading way too much into this, but how would the USA feel if AI was all centred say in China, and their data was being sucked up into that AI? Would the USA not want to assert some digital sovereignty and establish control over its citizens' data?
At least this is not a case of the EU demanding that OpenAI be sold off from the US and an EU company is allowed to buy it. This is more a case of other countries wanting to get control over their citizen's data, or to establish their own capabilities in their countries. Nothing really wrong with that at all. As I said, I'm sure the US would think the same way if AI was not under their control.
It is wake-up call though to all countries, where they should be thinking more about the privacy of their citizen data, and their own government data. Things are starting to get stickier, and to be honest I don't think many countries have woken up to this properly yet.
Control over data is power.
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US orders diplomats to fight foreign data sovereignty rules
The US has ordered its diplomats to lobby against foreign data privacy laws that could limit American tech firms.
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