"My Lords, as we reach Third Reading and the Bill goes back to the Commons, we need to take account of where the Bill now stands and the choices before us. With the successful passage of Amendment 163 on Report, this House has insisted on a vital regime-wide effectiveness review …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare an interest as an adviser to DLA Piper on AI policy and regulation. The Government talk of sovereign AI but continue to award their biggest data and tech contracts to US hyperscalers. What share of public AI procurement is intended to go to British SMEs under …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the noble Earl for his reference, but I commend the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, for her work on this. I am not surprised that she has raised this again. When she tabled an amendment to the Online Safety Bill, we all thought that this categorisation matter …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"My Lords, I welcome what the Minister has said but, while Meta has delayed these terms, it has not changed a word of them in doing so. It does not use the word “train” any more, but it can still crawl publishers’ websites to “develop and improve” its products. It …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Meta’s updated Commercial Terms, which from 30 October authorise it to crawl the websites of UK business users for the purposes of AI development...." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare an interest as an adviser to DLA Piper on AI regulation and policy. A list of safe tools can tell us what to avoid. What is the Government’s vision for what AI in schools can achieve for children? Will they adopt a human flourishing test for …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare an interest as a consultant to DLA Piper on AI regulation and policy. Just two weeks ago, the Government resisted a proposal from Members right across this House to introduce an AI kill switch into cyber legislation on the grounds that the Government were “technology agnostic”. …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"My Lords, we welcome the return of data protection to DCMS. The Government’s own Data (Use and Access) Act replaced the “essentially equivalent” test for adequacy for international data transfers with a lower threshold of “not materially lower”. Does the Minister accept that this weaker standard leaves UK citizens’ data …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech
"My Lords, I think that we are in the final furlong. In moving my Amendment 92C, I will also speak to the closely aligned Amendment 95C under my name. These amendments raise a profound and non-negotiable constitutional principle. They respond directly to the almost always authoritative recommendations of the Delegated …..." Lord Clement-Jones - View Speech