Data protection – in this brave new AI world, why is my proprietary data the one thing no one will protect?

It's the grim irony of the AI world. Your bank account details may be protected, but your life's work and sole source of income? Nope.

Since the post-Brexit days of Boris Johnson's premiership, Britain's regulators have been tasked with supporting tech innovation and economic growth. But how easy is it to square data protection with backing innovators' interests?

After all, we live in a world of increasingly aggressive approaches to market by some vendors – especially US Big Techs and AI providers, who are force-feeding us with generative AI on every cloud platform, while demanding access to the world's IP without consequence, consent, or remuneration for copyright holders.

More, evidence shows that AI-powered search from the likes of Google and Microsoft is referring fewer and fewer people to external data sources; news organizations, in particular, report a massive drop in traffic.

It seems that the Web ...