Select Committee · Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Connected tech: smart or sinister?

Status: Closed Opened: 12 May 2022 Closed: 5 Feb 2024 23 recommendations 8 conclusions 2 reports

The DCMS Committee will examine the impacts of the increasing prevalence of smart and connected technology and what needs to be done to ensure it is safe and secure for its users. The Connected tech: smart or sinister? inquiry will explore how devices including smart speakers, virtual assistants such as Alexa and Siri and wearable …

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Reports

2 reports
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Eleventh Report - Connected tech: AI and creative technology HC 1643 30 Aug 2023 11 Responded
Tenth Report - Connected tech: smart or sinister? HC 157 7 Aug 2023 20 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
11 Recommendation Eleventh Report - Connected tech: AI an… Accepted in Part

Improve protections for creatives from generative AI misuse by urgently ratifying the Beijing Treaty.

The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence and the impact this is already having on the ability of artists to protect their moral rights means that urgent action is necessary. The Government should improve protections for creatives to prevent misuse of their likeness and performances by emerging technologies such as …

Government response. The government committed to implementing and ratifying the Beijing Treaty, expecting it to come into force in late 2024, fulfilling the request for ratification. However, for broader protections against AI misuse of likeness, it will only "explore the case for …
Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Oral evidence sessions

6 sessions
Date Witnesses
31 Jan 2023 Erika Lewis · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Julia Lopez MP · Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Sam Cannicott · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport View ↗
17 Jan 2023 David Kleidermacher · Google, John Edwards · Information Commissioner's Office, Leila Rouhi · Amazon, Stephen Almond · Information Commissioner's Office View ↗
22 Nov 2022 Dr Yiyun Kang, Svana Gisla · ABBA Voyage View ↗
1 Nov 2022 Dr Asieh Hosseini Tabaghdehi, Dr Efpraxia Zamani, Dr Matthew Cole View ↗
11 Oct 2022 Matt Lewis · NCC Group, Professor George Loukas, Simon Moore · Palo Alto Networks View ↗
19 Jul 2022 Antony Walker · techUK, Dr Leonie Tanczer, Dr Lulu Shi, Silkie Carlo · Big Brother Watch View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
9 Feb 2023 To cttee Letter from John Edwards, Information Commissioner, relating to oral evidence …