Another reminder that convenience is never neutral.
GOV.UK Chat has launched inside the GOV. The UK app is an AI-powered way to ask questions about government services. That sounds useful until you look at the privacy layer.
The official notice says it uses a unique identifier linked to GOV.UK One Login creates conversation history, analyses usage, retains conversations and linked data for 12 months, and states that collected data may be shared with other government departments, agencies and organisations.
That does not mean everyone should panic. It does mean we should ask why a public information tool needs a login-linked history at all.
AI can make government services easier to use. Still, public sector AI must be held to a higher standard: minimal data, clear deletion, no mission creep, and no quiet normalisation of digital ID.
Would you ask a government AI chatbot sensitive questions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF7PVIN10NA
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