Georgetown Law Professor Seeks 'Redlines for Data'
Regulate data, not AI, said Emily Tucker, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology executive director, in an op-ed Tuesday for Tech Policy Press.
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“We don’t need redlines for ‘AI,’ we need redlines for data,” she said. “We need redlines that would put an end to many of the data practices of tech companies that sell ‘AI,’ and we need those redlines to apply regardless of the types of products they are using data to create.”
Tucker said she’s “not talking about a data governance regime focused on protecting individuals from privacy violations,” but rather “a data governance regime to protect political communities from the corporate power grab currently underway.”
“Redlines that advance that goal would include restrictions on particular practices (like collecting certain types of data, stealing data, and selling data) that a technology company of any size might engage in,” she said. “But what we need most urgently are redlines that set hard limits on the scale of corporate data collection and on the consumption of natural resources for data processing. If governments do not set and enforce such limits soon, they will quickly lose the power to set or enforce any meaningful limits on tech companies at all.”