Dutch intelligence agencies were caught training AI models using data on citizens to which they were not supposed to have access

The CTIVD, the official intelligence oversight body in the Netherlands, published a report stating that AIVD and MIVD personnel accessed massive amounts of data and stored it in ways that violated Dutch law. Names, phone numbers, location data, social media accounts, and the content of communications—millions of records.

Some of this data came from government sources, some was purchased from commercial companies, and some was stolen by criminals and bought on the dark web.

The agencies are training their own AI models using this data. This is not the first such incident. In 2020, the same oversight body discovered that these same agencies had been storing citizens’ data for significantly longer than the time limits set by law. Following complaints, they were ordered to delete this data. Six years later: the same report. The same conclusion. The same agencies. But now with AI involved.

It is reported that the illegally stored data is now being used to train models that will make future surveillance faster, more accurate, and more autonomous.

The organization Bits of Freedom stated outright: “It appears they are buying data from criminals involved in data leaks.”

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