Beeban Kidron
Crossbench peer WHO campaigns on children's online safety and AI copyright transparency.
Peers are again trying to attach AI duties to a bill, with Lords report stage on the Cyber Resilience Bill set for 26 October 2026. Beeban Kidron's 2025 push to make AI developers disclose copyright works is the precedent, and the Commons defeated it.
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Named as Baroness Kidron
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Beeban Kidron sits as a crossbench member of The House of Lords. A former film director, she founded the 5Rights Foundation and campaigns on children's safety online and on copyright in AI training.
Her earlier Lords work produced the amendment that created the Age Appropriate Design Code. In 2025 she led amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that would have made AI developers say which copyright works they used. Her amendments shuttled between the two Houses five times; MPs voted them down on each occasion, and the bill became law without them in June 2025.
Kidron has also argued that the EU's Digital Services Act child-safety finding against Meta is a test of Article 28 in its own right.