Re: AI Leading Question[s]
Is the UK following the US,
I think they are in close lockstep, with little to choose. In both countries over-powerful and thoroughly entrenched elites are bent on universal surveillance. The recent UK decision that the stasi could legally dragnet MPs data is a temporary setback for the UK elite (who don't expect the laws they pass to apply to them), but to an extent it only mirrors the US situation where the NSA and CIA not only spied on senators and congressmen, but even interfered with the data.
And what are the chances of things working badly rather than effectively?
We already know that, with local government using powers supposedly passed to protect people from the supposedly omnipresent terror threat against people dropping litter or failing to pick up their dog's mess, and the interference with Congressional investigations.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
