All businesses and gov agencies will require this ID for EVERYTHING.

So you're actually saying everyone MUST have a phone, which is linked to their official ID.

So now citizens will be required to carry a transponder, with a camera and microphone, photographic history and a dossier of their internet history at all times....

Should be interesting what police do with protesters on this, or what criminals do with stolen phones.

This is a BAD idea.

And let the hunger games begin!

I am pretty sure they meant, they don't want liability!

Consider that the AI companies didn't ignore copyright. They didn't copy anyone's work. They didn't breach any of the licence terms in existence at the time. Are you sure you're not just sour grapes because it's too late now?

In respect to the subject of compensation, if somehow there was an agreement for compensation, then the claimants would need to show their work specifically was copied. Inspired works do not require consent of payment to existing copyright holders. Then they would need to be able to show what proportion of their work was copied against any other parties vs new creative elements in the work in question.

Recently Ed Sheeran won a

“The four-chord progression at issue—ubiquitous in pop music—even coupled with a syncopated harmonic rhythm, is too well-explored to meet the originality threshold that copyright law demands,” a panel of appeals court judges wrote. “Overprotecting such basic elements would threaten to stifle creativity and undermine the purpose of copyright law.”

It would seem from that ruling that even people can be inspired and creative directive works without royalties.

Should all artists get compensation from all AI companies that used their work to build a model?

Should all compensation be equal? If not, how would it be determined?

I don't think they have any idea what they want, and I don't think it will work. Good luck with that.

I'd wager all humans were trained at least in part by other artists work, without a licence. Free loading off the work of DaVinci and Dali etc. Perhaps anyone who creates anything should be paid perpetuity by those that come after them?

Isn't that similar to US regulations targeting TikTok?

1. They will still collect them.
2. They will still search them.
3. They will use parallel construction to avoid any consequences.
4. Who's going to stop them? Who's watching the watchers?

Double standard, what would the music industry think of that? If I copy music to listen to it, have I created it. Seems like 2 different rules depending on who is asking.

What if, some people just 'lose' the money to themselves through their secret self custody wallet. Claim a loss for tax reasons, and bobs you're uncle, free money.

Whist I don't doubt there is some concern of data collection to a foreign power. The elephant in the room is the influence TikTok has over the population, where that influence is controlled by a foreign power.

Governments on both sides are well aware that influencing a democratic population in certain ways can direct it in certain directions. TikTok could be influencing certain segments of the American population using its algorithms to stir up trouble and destabilize regions, or ignite issue between groups.

The government doesn't want to acknowledge this is the real reason they want to bad TikTok, because then it would have to concede that democracy is really controlled by the media and whomever controls the media controls the government.

It's not about the data, it's about the influence.

We have foreign ownership laws for Newspaper companies for a reason. Those reasons don't apply to TikTok becasue they are not a news outlet, the users post the content. It's time to recognize social media for what it is, a publisher and it should have responsibility for what is published on it's platform.

Problem is, they don't wanna do this, because it would harm American companies too.

Microsoft's strategy for buying Activision is to tie in the players to Microsoft accounts, just like they did with Minecraft. They want gamers to have a dependency on Microsoft more than anything. I am sure it won't long before you will be required to have a Microsoft account to play any old Activision games, and of course you will need to agree to Microsoft's terms of service. I suspect Microsoft are building a significant account base across their entire product range to position themselves as a advertising platform bigger and worse than we have ever seen before.

The worst part of the legislation is that if the UK government uses a veto, it is a secret veto! How can a government be accountable to the people with secret veto powers? We can't even challenge a veto of our on privacy interests. On a side note, I, for one, would like all the whatsapp messages from all the politician to be recorded and held by a thirdparty in escrow in case they are needed in a inquiry. They can't have an expectation of privacy when they have shown their willingness to delete whatsapp message on mass, on regular intervals to prevent the public for holding them to account.

When FTX collapsed, the financial regulators started shouting that, such a collapse showed the desperate need for regulation and control to prevent people losing their money.

When SVB collapsed, the financial regulators are no where to be seen.

I for one would like to hear from the regulators on exactly how their regulation of FTX would have helped in light of what has just happened. It looks to me like the regulated environment has more problems than the unregulated one.